MENA: Rage after Israel Attacks Gaza-bound Flotilla
Emotions are running high across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), after Israel attacked a peaceful flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to besieged Gaza - and the Twittersphere is ablaze.
According to Reuters:
The violent end to a Turkish-backed attempt to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip by six ships carrying some 600 people and 10,000 tonnes of supplies raised an outcry across the Middle East and far
beyond. read more »
Egypt's Metro Comic Book Verdict Adjourned
Thousands of quarry workers clash with Egypt police
The protesters marched into al-Minya city, in the central province of al-Minya, and blocked a bridge spanning the Nile, to protest against a decision by the authorities to impose new duties on quarried rock, security sources said.
Police used teargas to disperse the crowd, but the protesters stoned police, injuring at least four officers, security sources said.
One policeman died, and accounts differed as to whether he was killed during the stoning or from exposure to teargas.
Egyptian Poet Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment for Criticizing Mubarak Dictatorship
July 14, 2009
CAIRO (AFP) — An Egyptian civil servant who wrote a satirical poem about veteran President Hosni Mubarak has been jailed for three years after a colleague turned the villainous verses over to the authorities.
Mounir Said Hanna Marzuq was given the maximum sentence for insulting the head of state, a judicial source said on Tuesday, in one of the poems he wrote for friends in the hope that one day they would be turned into song.
Clashes erupt as textile factory workers strike in Mahalla
By Abdel-Rahman Hussein
First Published: July 12, 2009
CAIRO: Clashes erupted Sunday between security forces and workers of the Aboul Seba’ textile factory in Mahalla after workers went on strike to demand three months of unpaid wages.
Initially, 500 workers gathered in front of the factory Sunday morning and started a strike because they have not been paid for the past three months. Clashes erupted late afternoon when security forces attempted to force workers off the street and onto factory premises. Workers responded by pelting security forces with stones.
Calls for workers' self-management in Egypt
Almasryonline.com
Textile strikers tell government they will self manage their factory, Hossam El Hamalawy reports.
In a solidarity meeting in Cairo, The Tanta Flax and Oil Company workers renewed their call for the nationalization of their factory, threatening to take over the factory and run it independently from the investor and the government if the latter didn’t intervene on behalf of the strikers.
The Egyptian State's Violations of Trade Union Rights - ITUC Annual Survey
Egypt's Strike Wave Continues
The “N-Word”
A political taboo for two decades, nationalization is a recurrent demand in the latest wave of labour strikes in privatized textile firms. Hossam el-Hamalawy reports
Egyptian Court Upholds Comic Book Ban
Regulating freedom of expression?
Almasryonline.com
Egypt’s First “Graphic" comic book on trial, Jano Charbel attends
Egypt: See no strikes, hear no strikes, report no strikes
Hundreds of workers at a local factory have been on strike since the end of May, demanding an increase in salaries and back pay that has not been given. On Tuesday, the Egyptian state security reared its ugly head when a foreign journalist attempted to cover the strike.
By JOSEPH MAYTON
CAIRO, July 2, 2009 (MENASSAT) — With dozens of workers gripping the iron rod gate marking the entrance to the Tanta Flax and Oil Company, plainclothes state security grabbed, shoved and punched this American reporter. The workers began chanting as the reporter attempted to record footage of what was happening inside the factory.
Pregnant Egyptian woman stabbed to death in Germany as a result of veil
Bikya Masr
3 July 2009
CAIRO: A German man outside of a Dresden, Germany, courtroom stabbed a 32-year-old Egyptian woman to death on Wednesday after she had won a defamation case against the man, Egypt’s Youm El Saba’a newspaper reported late Thursday. According to security sources in the German city, Marwa Al Sherbini, was stabbed.
Local news reported that Sherbini was three-months pregnant at the time. Her husband, who was finishing a scholarship at a German institute in genetics, was also shot outside the court, moments after the verdict had been handed down.
Reuters - Egypt border police kill African migrant, hurt two
The killing is the second of an unarmed migrant on Egypt's border with Israel in less than a week.
The security sources said they had spotted three men attempting to slip across the border into Israel and ordered them to stop, opening fire when the migrants failed to do so.
The unidentified African man was killed by a bullet fired into the right side of his chest, and the two Eritreans with him were also shot, the sources said.
اشمعنى غزة
كالعادة تصدمني قدرتنا على الجدل العبثي من زوايا عجيبة في قضايا أنا كنت شايفها واضحة تماما. و كالعادة ترعبني شوفينية دفينة في مجتمعنا ممزوجة باستعداد غير مفهوم لأننا نسمع خطاب دولة و نظام كلنا عارفين أنه شغال ضد مصالحنا و نكبة علينا.
مفيش كلام جديد يتقال في موضوع غزة و الصراع العربي الاسرائيلي، بس الحوارات العبثية اللي شغالة اليومين دول مستفزة جدا. و بالذات الكلام عن الحدود. read more »
Which one is wrong? HIV or Homosexuality?
``Habitual passive sodomite takes knee-chest position without shame during examination." —From Principles of Forensic Medicine by staff members of the Forensic & Clinical Toxicology Department. Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine.
Forensic examinations to prove habitual non-violent anal penetration are inherited from the textbooks of Victorian era medicine[1].
There are no peer-reviewed research that provides sound evidence in that area[2]. Because sodomy was decriminalized in western Europe by the beginning of the 20th century[1]. While countries that still considers such acts criminal are not publishers of sound peer-reviewed research. read more »
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