One day after Mubarak’s regime celebrated Sinai Liberation Day…
Hundreds of Egypt Bedouin seeking entry to Israel
By Yusri Mohamed
AL-ARISH, Egypt, April 26- Hundreds of Egyptian Sinai Bedouin massed at the border with Israel on Thursday seeking entry into the Jewish state a day after two Bedouin men died in a police chase, security sources and witnesses [...]

AI expressed its solidarity with Egyptian labor activists who are coming under attack from Mubarak’s dictatorial regime…
Amnesty International condemned the Egyptian government’s closure of a leading workers advice centre yesterday, on the eve of the country’s Labour Day, and said it undermined President Hosni Mubarak’s claims in a speech today that his government is committed [...]

I received the following statement from Human Rights Watch…
The Egyptian government should immediately reverse its order to close the headquarters and two branch offices of the Center for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS), Human Rights Watch said today.
Security officers on Wednesday closed the headquarters of the CTUWS, which offers legal aid to Egyptian factory [...]

Here’s a video clip of bloggers and the families of Muslim Brotherhood student detainees, who underwent interrogation with Moneim by the Shobra Prosecutor, on Tuesday. The parents of the students are in tears, denouncing the “tyrants” who took away their sons…

My solidarity goes to Moneim and the MB detainees…

As Mubarak prepares to address the nation, part of his regime’s “celebrations” of May Day, strikes continue in Suez, Daqahliya, and Alexandria…

Click to watch animation by Mark Fiore on Egypt and Bush’s allies…

I received a detailed report from the Egyptian Workers and Trade Unions Watch, citing 20 labor conflicts (strikes, sit-ins, threats of strikes, security crackdowns) happening in Cairo and elsewhere, during the third week of April. Click on the cartoon below to download the (Arabic) report, in a PDF format…

The kangaroo military trial of the MB leaders opened today, and was adjourned till 3 June. Here’s a report by AP’s Nadia Abou El-Magd…
CAIRO _ A military trial of at least 33 leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood began Thursday under heavy secrecy, one of the largest such tribunals in years in a crackdown [...]

A story by Jonathan Wright of Reuters…
Wedding of Mubarak’s son seen as part of succession
CAIRO, April 25 - Gamal Mubarak, the 43-year-old son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, might as well have been on the campaign trail through the provinces this week. Only he isn’t a formal candidate for any elected office.
In the Nileside town [...]

A long report by journalist and friend Paul Schemm, on the current strike wave in Egypt and the opposition…
The largest wave of labour unrest to hit Egypt in the past half century could be more than just the birth pangs of a liberalising economy but also the mass movement needed to revitalise a flagging opposition.
Starting [...]

Good news…
A court in Argentina has overturned a 1990 pardon given to two former military dictators saying they must continue to serve life sentences for human rights abuses.
Jorge Videla, a former president, and Eduardo Massera, a navy chief, were leaders of the junta that waged a “dirty war” against political opponents in the late 1970s [...]

Click on the cartoon below to watch Mark Fiore’s latest animation…