Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’

#Jan25 Matthew @justimage

Photojournalist Matthew Cassel injured in attacks by Mubarak’s thugs…

#Jan25 Rubber bullets

One of the injured protesters from Tahrir Square…

Killings in Kasserine: Tunisians demand to know the true death toll from riots

Police clash with coptic protesters in Giza; 1 killed

Police violently clashed with Coptic protesters in Omraniya, Wednesday morning, after hundreds demonstrated in front of the Giza Governorate HQ, denouncing the authorities’ halt of a church construction. At least one protester was killed, more than 50 were injured. A journalist friend present in the scene confirmed there was a number of Muslim protesters who also joined the rioting against the police in solidarity. Moreover, the Coptic protesters chanted “Long live the Cross with the Crescent” – a 1919 revolution slogan that supports national unity against the oppressor. One of the eyewitnesses in Al-Jazeera report also said that the Copts made it clear they “had no quarrels with Muslims, only with the government.”

Unearthing sexual exploitation

Martin Mubanga مارتن موبانجا

A former Gitmo detainee I met in London five years ago, Martin Mubanga, and five other British citizens and residents are to receive compensations from the UK government.

Egypt must not try factory workers before a military court

The London-based rights watchdog denounces the military prosecution of Helwan workers…

Amnesty international has condemned the trial before an Egyptian military court of eight factory workers, all civilians, detained after taking part in a protest against poor safety conditions at the factory, following an explosion which killed one of their fellow workers.
The trial of the eight workers from Helwan Factory for Engineering Industries (Military Factory No. 99) resumes at the military court in Nasr City, in the east of Cairo on Saturday.

مؤتمر صحفي لمحاميي وعائلات عمال مصنع ٩٩ الحربي المحالين للمحاكمة العسكرية

Tomorrow Saturday 9:30pm, there will be a press conference held by the families and defense lawyers of the Helwan workers who are facing military tribunal for protesting lax industrial safety measures at their factory.

The event will be held at the Center for Socialist Studies, 7 Murad Street, Giza.

سؤال وجواب حول الحماية القانونية والأمان الرقمي لمستخدمي الانترنت

متأخر قليلا في التنويه عنه.. ولكن عموما مفيد الإطلاع على دليل الحماية القانونية والأمان الرقمي التي قام مركز هشام مبارك للقانون بوضعه….

The fight over land in Egypt

According to a report I received by email from the Land Center for Human Rights: Land disputes in the first half of 2010 resulted in: 130 farmers killed, 850 wounded and the imprisonment of another 1234.