Mohamed Maree is still on a hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison. He’s been moved to Section 15, while his fellow hungerstriker Sinai blogger Moss’ad Abu Fagr has been moved to Section 19. Both are locked up with “criminals.”

250 workers from the Mansoura-España Garments Company went on strike an hour ago, after the security banned Adel Hassaballah, the deputy head of the Factory Union Committee from entering the compound. The trade unionist had been fired earlier by the United Bank, charged with allowing journalists into the factory to speak to the workers…
UPDATE 9:30am: [...]

Mohamed Marie, Mossa’ad Abu Fagr and 17 from the Mahalla detainees are starting a hungerstrike tomorrow in Bourg el-Arab Prison, demanding their release or to be given a justification by the govt why they are still kept in custody… They are also demanding that State Security officials would NOT be present during the prison visits [...]

Alsharq Alawsat Land Reclamation employees are protesting now in downtown Cairo, Abdel Khalek Tharwat st intersection with Champilion.. in front of the Arab Investment Bank, which owns the company… The workers haven’t gotten paid their salaries for three months, and the bank has been stalling their bonuses and grants since 2004..
UPDATE: Photos and report available [...]

I’m receiving news that a number of workers from the light bulbs factory in the 10th of Ramadan City, are now staging a protest in downtown Cairo, in front of the Social Insurance building. No more info is available at the moment… But it’s worth mentioning that this company is one of the two companies [...]

Police clashed with citizens in the northern province of el-Boroloss, reports HMLC, resulting in injuries and deaths.. No more details are available at the moment…
UPDATE: A report from Tadamon…
UPDATE: I’m extremely busy with my departure for Cairo logistics, so I don’t have time to follow up on this properly.. So please follow the HMLC blog, [...]

I couldn’t blog about it earlier, since I was outside the house.. Our three comrades (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri) have arrived safely in their homes after they were released from State Security Police’s custody…
We still have Mohamed Maree, James Buck’s translator, left behind still in prison, together with a number of Mahalla [...]

TERRIBLE NEWS..
Mahalla labor leader Kamal el-Fayoumi, who’s been on a hungerstrike since last Sunday, is vomiting blood in his Bourg el-Arab prison cell… Kamal has stomach ulcers, and his health is deteriorating amid refusal from the Prison authorities to transfer him to the hospital. Kamal was taken only to the Prison clinic around three hours [...]

The police attacked our comrades ya shabab in Zimbabwe…
The Harare offices of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) – The Socialist Workers Party’s sister organisation in Zimbabwe – were raided yesterday morning by the police.
ISO member Tafadzwa Sando said, “The police wanted to search our offices and said that they had been told the last issue [...]

I don’t have details yet about this… But AFP is saying that those who joined the hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison have gone up to 280 prisoners…
Dozens of inmates at a prison in northern Egypt went on hunger strike on Sunday to protest against their continued detention despite repeated court orders for their release, an [...]

After brief suspension of their hungerstrike prior to the lawyers’ appeal in court last Wednesday… The Mahalla 3 (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri) are resuming their hungerstrike tomorrow in Bourg el-Arab Prison, Alexandria, demanding their release…

Boulaq Police sadist Islam Nabih’s appeal has been turned down…

Lawyers are appealing in court, Wednesday, the detention decrees issued by Muabrak’s Torturer-In-Chief Habib el-Adly against the Mahalla 3…

I received those tweets from Nora… and here is a report by Sarah Carr…
A protest planned to take place in front of the People’s Assembly was banned yesterday by state security bodies.
According to Hesham Fouad, a member of the Freedoms Committee of the Journalists’ Syndicate, the protest was planned by the Committee for the Defense [...]

I’ve just received news from a Socialist source in Cairo saying detained Ghazl el-Mahalla hungerstrikers Kamal el-Foyumi and Tarek Amin were also transferred to the Bourg el-Arab prison hospital after their health deteriorated… I still don’t have more details about when exactly were they transferred, but their health (and Kareem’s who was transfered earlier) is [...]

Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri have started a hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison demanding their release…
There will be a protest in solidarity with the detainees in front of Dar el-Qadaa el-3ali, downtown Cairo, 14 May 12 noon…

I’ve just received this message from a journalist friend in Cairo three minutes ago…
GOVERNMENT ABOUT TO RAISE PRICES ON CAR FUEL!! ALL KINDS!!! ALSO CIGARETTES, CAR LICENSING FEES, ETC. PARLIAMENT DISCUSSING LIVE ON TV, AHMED EZZ ANNOUNCING DECISIONS, BROTHERHOOD AND INDEPENDENTS ALMOST RIOTING IN ASSEMBLY, TRYING TO SHOUT EZZ DOWN, FATHI SUROUR TRYING TO SHUT [...]

I’ve just received news that MB blogger and friend Abdel Moneim Mahmoud has been stopped at the Cairo International airport, by Mubarak’s State Security pigs, on his way to Morocco to participate in a conference on press freedom. He remains detained in the State Security office in the airport as of time of writing…

UPDATE: Moneim [...]