Mubarak’s Interior Minister General Habib el-Adly, accused of murdering at least 360 protesters during the uprising, will stand trial in a civilian court, while peaceful protesters and strikers detained by the army today get tried in front of military tribunals…
The army has killed by mistake a woman, as a crackdown on strikers ensued in Suez. There are also reports a number of strikers were detained in Cairo by the military police.
Following the arrest of the Suez strikers, a trade unionist source told me over the phone, their families assembled in a protest, and that’s when the woman was ran over by an army tank accidentally. This woman is related to one of the detained strikers. Clashes ensued, as protesters tried to mob the army brigadier general who was in the tank.
Another accident took place in Tera’a Square, as an army tank ran into a microbus by accident. The microbus belongs to the Sharkeyoon Petrochemicals company. No one was injured in the accident, but citizens assembled around the tank and shouted slurs against the army.
El-Sayyed Saber, IDSC striker from Sharqiya, attending the 2 May protest for raising the national minimum wage…
Hamada Abu Zeid, one of the IDSC strikers, expresses his solidarity with the 2 May protest for raising the national minimum wage.
El-Sayyed Saber, one of the IDSC strikers, expresses his solidarity with the 2 May protest for raising the national minimum wage.
The Tanta Flax and Oils Company strikers clashed on Sunday with the Central Security Forces in the Nile Delta province, injuring the deputy head of the Gharbeia Security Directorate. Please follow the updates I’m posting on delicious…
Tanta Flax and Oil Company strikers protesting in front of the ministerial cabinet HQ in downtown Cairo, August 2009…
Wael Habib, Textile Workers League activist and Ghazl el-Mahalla labor leader…
Hisham el-Okal, trade unionist from the Tanta Flax and Oils Company, updating the audience on the ongoing strike in Mit Hebeish…
Both photos taken during the Center for Socialist Studies‘ meeting on Self Management and the Egyptian Labor Movement…
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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