Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’

الحريات تتراجع في مصر تحت حكم العسكر

لا للمحاكمات العسكرية – الحرية لأبو المعاطي

Freedom for Michael Nabil مايكل نبيل أول سجين رأي بعد الثورة

VIDEO – Fighting the Egyptian military for justice

لا للمحاكمات العسكرية للمدنيين

آمال فرغلي تتحدث عن محاكمة ابنها محمد عسكرياً

Egypt’s labor movement under attack

In the first three weeks of June, at least 22 workers and farmers have been interrogated by the military prosecutor and/or referred to military courts, according to the Awlad el-Ard NGO.

On Saturday, 10 am, activists will be holding a protest in front of the State Council, in Dokki, in solidarity with Ali Fetouh, the president of the independent union of public transport workers, who is undergoing trial over charges of “inciting strikes.” Fetouh has also received international support from trade unionists in the UK.

The continued crackdown on the labor movement is taking place while the International Labor Organization is awarding our military junta by taking Egypt off its black list. For the ILO, it seems, military tribunals and anti-strike laws mean nothing other than the Egyptian workers are now free.

Shocking evidence of Syria crackdown emerges

Where is Azzazi?

From SS Officers

As we celebrate May Day, I was wondering whatever happened to SS Brigadier General Ahmad el-Azzazi, who headed the dissolved agency’s infamous “Trade Unions Bureau”. Why isn’t he on trial?

SS Brigadier Mohamed Mahmoud Borghosh عميد أمن دولة محمد محمود برغش

From SS Officers

Among the sets I found on the Nasr City SS DVDs was one of Brigadier General Mohamed Mahmoud Borghosh.

The officer’s name was mentioned in the infamous case filed by NDP lawyer Samir el-Sheshtawi against Ad-Dustour editor and dissident journalist Ibrahim Eissa. The latter was sentenced to prison over bogus charges, but was “pardoned” by Mubarak in a PR move.

Judge Mahmoud Hamza, one of the reformist Judges who took part the “Judges Intifada” accused Borghosh of taking part in the brutal assault against him on 23 April 2006, as SS and the Central Security Forces moved in to suspend the sit in staged by activists in solidarity with the reformist Judges in downtown Cairo.

Brigadier General Borghosh is no stranger to human rights activists. Lawyer Gamal Eid, director of the ANHRI, wrote me:

محمد برغش.. أحد ضباط أمن الدولة سيئ السمعة. كان ضمن المسئولين عن ملف المحامين والقضاء، وبدءا من عام 2003 ، أصبح مسئول ملف القضاء فقط وكان أعلى وسيط امن الدولة في التعامل مع القضاة. وخلال محاكمة أيمن نور كان دوره أهم من عادل عبدالسلام جمعة رجل الحكومة في القضاء. وإذا استطعت الوصول لصور من محاكمات أيمن نور التي حضرتها كمراقب للهيومان رايتس ووتش كان دائما ما يقف على المنصة خلف القضاة الثلاثة فضلا عن دوره في توجيه محاكمة البسطويسي ومكي التي .فبركها النظام السابق

Eid describes Borgosh as

…one of the State Security Police officers with the worst reputations. He was in charge of the lawyers’ and judges’ file… and was the most senior liaison between State Security Police and the Judges. During Ayman Nour’s trial, his [Borghosh's] role was more important than the pro-government presiding judge, Adel Abdel Salam Goma’a. If you can get hold of any of the photos of Ayman Nour’s trial sessions, which I attended as a monitor for Human Rights Watch, you’ll find him [Borghosh] always standing behind the judges’ bench. Needless to say, he had a role in directing the trial of [Judges Hisham] el-Bastaweesi and Mahmoud Mekki.

Why isn’t Brigadier General Borghosh on trial now? Will he be part of the newly established National Security Agency?