Solidarity from Britain…
A day after the British Union of Colleges and Universities (UCU) voted to consider imposing a boycott on Israeli academics, UNISON, the largest labor union in Britain, threatened to impose a boycott of their own on Israeli products.
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Earlier this week, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) President Willie Madisha said COSATU [...]

I received a statement from Mahalla workers, signed by “Workers For Change Committee,” (a previously unkown group) slamming the Ghazl el-Mahalla management, demanding the impeachment of the board of directors, as well as the corrupt Factory Union Committee officials, and threatening a strike by the end of July.
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Women of Qale’t el-Kabsh women chanting: “The one with a five (thousands Egyptian Pounds) is a winner,” in reference to the LE5,000 bribe, they say, they have to pay to local officials so as to get the alternative housing promised by the govt for free…

From the NYC-based rights watchdog…
Human Rights Watch today released video interviews with eight Muslim Brotherhood members recounting earlier detentions. In the interviews, they describe torture and abuse suffered at the hands of security forces and their sentencing by military courts.
Human Rights Watch also listed the names of 223 members of the Muslim Brotherhood currently [...]

The witchhunt against textile labor activists in Ghazl el-Mahalla continues. The latest victim is blogo-worker Kareem el-Beheiri, who was transferred two days ago from his job at the secretariat department to the spinning sector.
Click on Kareem’s pic below to read his testimony…

[Above: Labor activist and blogger Kareem el-Beheiri during a Workers' Coordination Committee meeting in [...]

Today, more than 100 Qale’t el-Kabsh residents staged a sit-in in front of the Public Prosecutor’s office in Ramses, protesting the government unfulfilled promises for compensations and alternative housing.

The protesters chanted against the government, accusing officials of being “liars, thieves, corrupt…” and blasted Suzan Mubarak, who loves to present herself as a the “mother of [...]

There were 14 new labor protests in the second week of May, as well as another seven industrial actions which continued from before, according to the new report by the Egyptian Workers and Trade Union Watch.
Click on the banner below to download the (Arabic) report for more details…

HR-Info lawyers issued a statement today after visiting blogger Kareem Amer in the Alexandrian Borg el-Arab Prison yesterday…
Two lawyers of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) visited the blogger Kareem Amer imprisonment in Borg Al-Arab Prison - Alexandria, sentenced to four years in prison in an opinion case. The lawyers went to [...]

From Ikhwan Web…
While the state security forces were detaining political analyst Abdul Rahman Salem in Dakahlia in the crackdown that included a number of supporters of MB candidates on May, 22, 2007; the state security officer attacked his family and intimidated women. This made his son Mohamed Abdul Rahman Salem, a student in the [...]