And there are no gunshots after all !!
The minister of interior Mohamed Ibrahim claimed yesterday in a press conference at his ministry that the CSF and security forces are only using tear gas against the protesters at the ministry of interior and nearby streets.
Ibrahim denied that the security forces were not using gunshots or birdshots despite the evidence mounted in the past days. Today some members of the Egyptian parliament claimed that the ministry of interior did not use gunshots against the protesters based on the statements of the minister of interior who spoke to the read more »
On Mental Illness in Egypt
Not For Sale : Anti Human Trafficking
Today we met with David Batstone , the president of Not For Sale organizationin San Francisco, the organization is working on ending the human trafficking and slavery, I liked the presentation for many re
On Defamation of Religions
The Human Rights Council in the United Nations passed a resolution combating defamation of religion. Islamic countries voted for this resolution. This resolution will be used to censor any speech against religions or holy persons. This resolution is passed as a way to solve crisis like the Danish cartoons and the Dutch movie Fitna
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: National Council for Human Rights to issue report Tuesday
Egypt: National Council for Human Rights to issue report Tuesday
Bikya Masr
31 August 2009
CAIRO: Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights announced in a statement Saturday that it would send its report on human rights in Egypt to the International Council for Human Rights in Geneva on Tuesday. The council said in the statement that the Geneva-based international council will then discuss the report in the “framework of the comprehensive periodic review session on the situation of human rights in Egypt during the past five years. read more »
Egypt's Metro Comic Book Verdict Adjourned
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 between anarchists and police in Athens
8 July 2009
Athens - Anarchists and police offers clashed in Athens during protest rallies against police sweep operations which target illegal immigrants in the Greek capital, according to Greek online news.
Hundreds protested in Athens against “xenophobia and racism” and the government’s measures regarding illegal immigration.
Over the last few days the police have strengthened measures mainly against the illegal immigrants in central Athens. Actions are envisaged to be held for detaining foreigners and placing them in specialized centers.
With the tension escalating, clashes occurred between the protesters and the police - as a result of which tear-gas was used.
The Egyptian State's Violations of Trade Union Rights - ITUC Annual Survey
Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib ... Bagram?
July 4, 2009
INVESTIGATION: US detention centre under suspicion as eerily familiar claims OF torture and rendition flights surface from the airbase on the outskirts of Kabul. by Ian Pannell, BBC Afghanistan Correspondent
NOOR HABIB'S hands shake as he draws a picture of how he says he was abused. He claims that he was taken to a small, darkened cell where his arms were tied to the ceiling and he was made to stand in waist-deep water for six hours at a time.
He says he was beaten, threatened with dogs, and deprived of sleep. He also claims there was nothing unusual about his treatment, "everyone else has the same story".
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.
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