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Monthly Archive for December, 2007
HRINFO issued a statement demanding the release of Sinai blogger and activist Musa’ad Suleiman Hassan, who was taken from his Ismailia on the morning of Wednesday December 26, 2007, then ordered by the Prosecutor to remain in police custody for for 15 days. Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the statement…
Al-Masry Al-Youm published a good feature on the garbage collectors’ strikes in 2007…
The Center for Socialist Studies issued a statement in solidarity with the Suez Food Industries workers’ strike. Click on the poster below to read it…
While the past year has witnessed several rare convictions in cases of torture and police abuse, leading analysts and international media argue a potential heightened government intolerance of police brutality. Rights groups urge the authorities to take “more systematic steps” to rid the country of its alleged torture practices.
Once considered a taboo issue, hardly tapped by the media, the numerous high-profile cases of police abuse and torture combined with increased advocacy against the practices and a film about police brutality have spurred discussion on the topic.
But journalists, activists, and bloggers who have shed light on cases of torture were not beyond the reach of authorities.
Click on Latuff’s cartoon below to read the full report…
















