Released detainees speak of torture in Mubarak’s Gulag معتقلو 6 أبريل المفرج عنهم: «أمن الدولة» كان يعذب البحيري علي خلفية «تلاو
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 08:24 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
In an interview with el-Badeel, released Karama Party activist Ahmad Amin Ahmad Eid said that: Kareem el-Beheiri was tortured in Mahalla’s State Security Police office for more than 18 hours. He told me his torturer was listening to the Quran while torturing him. I saw in Mahalla’s 2nd Police Station children no more than 13 years [...]
In an interview with el-Badeel, released Karama Party activist Ahmad Amin Ahmad Eid said that: Kareem el-Beheiri was tortured in Mahalla’s State Security Police office for more than 18 hours. He told me his torturer was listening to the Quran while torturing him. I saw in Mahalla’s 2nd Police Station children no more than 13 years [...]
Mohamed Maree tortured تعذيب المترجم محمد مرعي
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 08:08 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
No updates on Mohamed Maree, the detained translator of James Buck… He’s still in custody. The latest information we have on Mohamed was by rights lawyers who visited Bourg el-Arab Prison on Saturday: We managed to visit Bourg el-Arab Prison today. It turned out that translator Mohamed Saleh Maree is detained as a ‘criminal’ after he [...]
No updates on Mohamed Maree, the detained translator of James Buck… He’s still in custody. The latest information we have on Mohamed was by rights lawyers who visited Bourg el-Arab Prison on Saturday: We managed to visit Bourg el-Arab Prison today. It turned out that translator Mohamed Saleh Maree is detained as a ‘criminal’ after he [...]
بيان من الضرائب العقارية: فلنتضامن مع المحلة
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 07:30 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The strike leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors, who are now acting as a defacto independent labor union, have issued a statement in solidarity with the detained Mahalla activists Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kamal el-Fayoumi and Tarek Amin…
The strike leaders of the Real Estate Tax Collectors, who are now acting as a defacto independent labor union, have issued a statement in solidarity with the detained Mahalla activists Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kamal el-Fayoumi and Tarek Amin…
Egyptian stock market continues to decline
3arabawy - Thu, 2008-05-15 00:37 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From the Daily News Egypt… Egypt’s bourse slid Wednesday for the seventh straight session led by construction and banking stocks, which were still reeling from the government move to cut tax breaks on energy-intensive firms and hike energy prices. “The government’s decision to cut tax breaks [for energy-intensive firms in free zones] has helped drag down the [...]
From the Daily News Egypt… Egypt’s bourse slid Wednesday for the seventh straight session led by construction and banking stocks, which were still reeling from the government move to cut tax breaks on energy-intensive firms and hike energy prices. “The government’s decision to cut tax breaks [for energy-intensive firms in free zones] has helped drag down the [...]
From the Memory of the Class: The Mahalla Uprising إنتفاضة المحلة
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-14 23:53 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Visualize the Revolution…
Visualize the Revolution…
Class War in the Egyptian Countryside تابع أخبار الحرب الطبقية بالريف المصري
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-14 12:59 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click on the poster below to check out Tadamon (The Solidarity Committee with the Agrarian Reform Peasantry) for continuous updates on the class struggle in the Egyptian countryside… Read reports the struggle against the regime’s oppression from State Security police assaults, burning down of peasants’ houses, to repeated govt attempts to strip farmers from their [...]
Click on the poster below to check out Tadamon (The Solidarity Committee with the Agrarian Reform Peasantry) for continuous updates on the class struggle in the Egyptian countryside… Read reports the struggle against the regime’s oppression from State Security police assaults, burning down of peasants’ houses, to repeated govt attempts to strip farmers from their [...]
AUC gossip
3arabawy - Wed, 2008-05-14 11:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From someone who was present at the last AUC Senate meeting… auc senate is considering a statement discouraging the invitation of israeli academics they are weighing risks of losing accreditation vs the obvious moral choice 58-42 in favor of boycott. Anyone has more details? UPDATE: Some updates from the AUC Senate meeting… “Revised AUC Senate Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academics [...]
From someone who was present at the last AUC Senate meeting… auc senate is considering a statement discouraging the invitation of israeli academics they are weighing risks of losing accreditation vs the obvious moral choice 58-42 in favor of boycott. Anyone has more details? UPDATE: Some updates from the AUC Senate meeting… “Revised AUC Senate Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academics [...]
Updates on the Mahalla detainees
3arabawy - Tue, 2008-05-13 05:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received the following message from a Socialist activist in Cairo… .العمال الثلاثة بدأوا إضرابا عن الطعام منذ الاحد الماضى حالة كريم تدهورت أمس الأثنين ..احتجاجا على الافراج عن جميع المعتقلين السياسيين سواهم The three labor activists (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kareem el-Beheiri and Tarek Amin) started a hungerstrike Sunday, to demand their release… Kareem’s health condition has deteriorated [...]
I received the following message from a Socialist activist in Cairo… .العمال الثلاثة بدأوا إضرابا عن الطعام منذ الاحد الماضى حالة كريم تدهورت أمس الأثنين ..احتجاجا على الافراج عن جميع المعتقلين السياسيين سواهم The three labor activists (Kamal el-Fayoumi, Kareem el-Beheiri and Tarek Amin) started a hungerstrike Sunday, to demand their release… Kareem’s health condition has deteriorated [...]
والثورة هي الأكيدة
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 23:35 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Sheikh Imam… Ya Falastineya…
Sheikh Imam… Ya Falastineya…
Postcards from Egypt: قاوموا خنازير الداخلية
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 22:08 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Stop Mubarak’s police brutality…
Stop Mubarak’s police brutality…
State-owned ISP blocks Kefaya website
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 21:05 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From AFP… A government-owned internet service provider has blocked the website of a leading opposition movement, a rights group said Monday, in the latest crackdown on the country’s cyber dissidents. “The website for the Egyptian Movement for Change — Kefaya has been blocked in Egypt [for] users who have access to the internet through TE-Data … since [...]
From AFP… A government-owned internet service provider has blocked the website of a leading opposition movement, a rights group said Monday, in the latest crackdown on the country’s cyber dissidents. “The website for the Egyptian Movement for Change — Kefaya has been blocked in Egypt [for] users who have access to the internet through TE-Data … since [...]
Mahalla labor detainees on hungerstrike
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 20:21 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri have started a hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison demanding their release…
Kamal el-Fayoumi, Tarek Amin and Kareem el-Beheiri have started a hungerstrike in Bourg el-Arab Prison demanding their release…
Arab dominoes
3arabawy - Mon, 2008-05-12 09:54 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…
The domino effect is working from Cairo to Damascus and from Mahalla to Beirut, as Zenobia notes…
Facebook activist speaks of torture in custody شهادة أحمد ماهر حول تعذيبه
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 07:04 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Ahmad Maher speaks about the torture he faced on the hands of Mubarak’s State Security Pigs…
Ahmad Maher speaks about the torture he faced on the hands of Mubarak’s State Security Pigs…
Activists protest in solidarity with Mahalla in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago وقفة تضامن مع معتقلي المحلة أمام قنصلية
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 06:45 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
I received photos of the protest organized by activists in solidarity with the Mahalla detainees, in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago…
I received photos of the protest organized by activists in solidarity with the Mahalla detainees, in front of Mubarak’s Consulate in Chicago…
The Return of Abu Se7la.. عودة أبو سحلة
3arabawy - Sat, 2008-05-10 06:33 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
It seems our friend Police Major Samawa’el Abu Sehla has made a come back.. Abu Sehla, the Qasr el-Nil Police Station dog, who kidnapped blogger Mohamed el-Sharqawi on 25 May 2006, was present in front of the Press Syndicate during Thursday’s anti-price hikes protest… Keep photographing the rapist dog ya shabab…
It seems our friend Police Major Samawa’el Abu Sehla has made a come back.. Abu Sehla, the Qasr el-Nil Police Station dog, who kidnapped blogger Mohamed el-Sharqawi on 25 May 2006, was present in front of the Press Syndicate during Thursday’s anti-price hikes protest… Keep photographing the rapist dog ya shabab…
Anti-price hikes protest صور مظاهرة نقابة الصحافيين ضد غلاء الأسعار
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:55 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
Click below to watch some photos taken by Sarah Carr of the Thursday anti-price hikes protest in front of the Press Syndicate…
Urban inflation hits 16.4%
3arabawy - Fri, 2008-05-09 11:29 By Hossam el-Hamalawy
From the Daily News Egypt… CAPMAS announced Thursday that urban inflation in Egypt rose to a new three-year high of 16.4 percent in the year to April, up from 14.4 percent in the year to March. Abu Bakr El-Guindi, head of the state statistics agency, told reporters in a news conference that inflation was driven mainly by [...]
From the Daily News Egypt… CAPMAS announced Thursday that urban inflation in Egypt rose to a new three-year high of 16.4 percent in the year to April, up from 14.4 percent in the year to March. Abu Bakr El-Guindi, head of the state statistics agency, told reporters in a news conference that inflation was driven mainly by [...]
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