The Shatila Camp, Photo by Bissane…

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Sarah has a report and some photos from Ezbet el-Baroudi, where farmers are struggling against land eviction and police assaults…

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From Al-Jazeera…

A huge rally is due to take place aimed at reminding the authorities of the bloody crackdown on locals, students, teachers and activists by state and federal police on June 14, 2006.
The violence, which human rights groups say left 27 people dead, began after a strike by teachers over poor pay developed into a broad demonstration against social and economic conditions in the poor Mexican state which shares the city’s name.
Protest organisers expect to see at least 50,000 people on the streets of the southern city on Saturday.

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Via Comrade Farah…

I received the following statement from Amnesty International…

The Egyptian authorities are preparing to forcibly return up to 1,200 asylum-seekers to Eritrea. This follows the deportation of 200 people on Thursday evening and 200 others on Wednesday 11 June. Amnesty International has said that the organization fears 180 more might be deported today, late in the evening.
Asylum-seekers returned to Eritrea are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment, particularly those who have fled from compulsory military service. Most are likely to be arbitrarily detained incommunicado in inhumane conditions for weeks, sometimes years.

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From Socialist Worker…

The neoliberal European Lisbon Treaty has been thrown out by the Irish voters as counting continues.
With 29 of 43 constituencies declared, the campaign for a no vote is leading by 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent. All but six constituencies have rejected the treaty.
Ireland was the only country to hold a referendum on the treaty. The campaign for a no vote won significant majorities among the urban working class and in rural areas in particular.
All the established parties in the Irish Republic backed the treaty. The Labour Party backed it as did some trade unions and the Green Party was split on the issue, with their government ministers campaigning for a yes vote. The bosses organisations spent millions campaigning in favour of the treaty.
Activists from the left and the anti-war movement have held rallies across the country and delivered leaflets to millions of homes.
As a spokesperson for the No campaign put it, “The Irish people have spoken. Contrary to the predictions of social and political turmoil, we believe that hundreds of millions of people across Europe will welcome the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.
“The proposals to further reduce democracy, to militarise the EU and to let private business take over public services have been rejected. Lisbon is dead. Along with the EU Constitution from which it came, it should now be buried.”

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From AP…

It’s a grim gauge of U.S. wars going in opposite directions: American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan in May passed the monthly toll in Iraq for the first time.

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AP is also reporting that…

As of Friday, June 13, 2008, at least 447 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures June 7 at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 310 were killed by hostile action.
Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 65 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, two were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen.
There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death.

“Military civilian” by the way means mercenaries.. What an oxymoronic expression..

From AFP…

Thirteen-year-old Essam Hussein spends his days lugging exhaust pipes in a little repair workshop in central Cairo, one of hundreds of thousands of children forced into labor to secure a future.
“I hate school, I like it here,” says Essam who dreams of owning his own repair shop with his brothers one day.
“I’ve been working here since last year,” he says, showing the mechanics’ garage where he has been working for about a year.
In a nearby workshop, Mohammed Hassan, 15, says he works only during the summer holidays.
“At least if school doesn’t work out, I’ll have a job,” says the teenager who makes around LE 40 per week.
Whether sweating under the engine of a broken down car, roaming the streets for a few pennies in exchange for flowers or picking cotton in the Nile Delta, one in 10 Egyptian children are forced into work.
On every street corner, out in the open fields or in gritty workshops, children, some as young as 10, are required to put in a day’s work.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF estimates that 2.7 million children between the ages of six and 14 in Egypt work.
According to official statistics, a third of Egypt’s 80 million population is below the age of 15. NGOs say that among those, 10 percent are forced to work, often in difficult conditions.

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From the Daily News Egypt…

Mottled with bruises and abrasions Reda Abdeen has been in a state of severe fatigue after being assaulted by Warraq Police Station officers who raided his house and took him to the police station when he refused to collaborate with them.
Abdeen says that the police wanted him report to them on movements of drug traffickers in Ard El-Liwa. He also claims that his aging father was not spared the assault either.
In a complaint he filed to the Prosecutor General and the Interior Minister, however, the father said that a police squad “stormed the house and attacked us. They tied up the hands of my son and dragged him along the floor. They tied up his hands and feet and threw him into a microbus trunk.”
The father confirmed that the reason for the assault was his son’s refusal to work with them as an informer. “They have even trumped up a drug dealing accusation against him. They planted hashish and 31 rolls of cannabis on him because he refused to work with them,” he claimed.
He said the officers had assaulted his son and had wounded him in the face and foot, pointing to the fact that his son had sustained a fracture in the right arm and the ribs after they had hung him against a door inside the police station to force him to agree.
“Despite my injuries,” the father told Daily News Egypt, “I decided to file the complaint immediately when they detained him inside the police station.”
He submitted a petition to the Interior Minister to have Abdeen released after more than three weeks despite his poor health which necessitates urgent hospitalization.
The Interior Ministry’s failure to respond prompted Abdeen’s father to file another complaint accusing the Interior Minister of colluding with Al-Warraq Police Station officers to coerce him into working with them. The victim’s mother told Daily News Egypt that Reda was their only support in their old age.

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