Journalist Per Björklund attended Kafr Elw’s protest, and uploaded some photos.
Tag: women
Solidarity needed with Socialist trade unionist
In a new attack on labor activists, the government-backed members of the Union Committee for the Giza Labor Directorate civil servants have summoned Socialist trade unionist Fatma Ramadan for interrogation today, threatening to freeze her union membership, part of a witch-hunt against dissident trade unionists.
The government-backed members have officially requested from the higher union body, the General Union of Administrative Services, to freeze Fatma’s union membership for: “inciting the employees,” “contacting the media,” “adopting illegal means of communications” (as Fatma led a campaign of petitions, directed to the Labor Minister herself, over the work conditions of the civil servants), and “distributing leaflets.”
UPDATE: The Workers’ Solidarity Committee issued a statement denouncing the crackdown.
3 Qale’t Kabsh slum women sentenced to 1 year in prison for demonstrating!
Three women from Qale’t el-Kabsh slum were sentenced to one year in prison for demonstrating in downtown Cairo this past summer!
The women’s names are: Kareema Abdel Fattah, Safeyya Muhammad and Mona el-Sayyed.