Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa al-Khalifa, member of Bahrain’s ruling family wants to do business in Manchester this Thursday and we say “No”. Join the demonstration, 9.00am, Thursday 13 October, Bridgewater Hall, opposite Midland Hotel and tell the Bahrain business delegation at the “Doing Business in Bahrain” seminar and their partners, the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, to stop their regime’s bloody…
Global medical professionals demand immediate dropping of all charges against Bahraini medics Twenty medical professionals in Bahrain have been given prison sentences of five to fifteen years in jail by military court, for helping those wounded by the regime. According to Physicians for Human Rights, there is “hard evidence of systematic and co-ordinated attacks against…
A national security court in Bahrain issued lengthy jail sentences against President of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, Mahdi Abu Dheeb and vice-president Jalila Salman on 25 September. Abu Dheeb was jailed for ten years, and Salman for three, for the ‘crime’ of calling for teachers to support peaceful protests and sit-ins in February this year.…
Details of where to send protest letters from the UK here Update 3 August 2011 Egyptian Human Rights organisation El Nadeem Centre reports that 111 detainees were transferred from the military prison to the prosecutor’s office this afternoon, some showing signs of having been tortured. All have now been released, but there are no details…
The Egyptian army and police have sent thugs using clubs and armoured cars to smash up the camp of martyrs’ families and their supporters in Tahrir Square on 1 August. The Front to Defend Egyptian Protestors confirmed the names of 82 people arrested, some of whom have since been released, while activists from the No…
On Saturday 25 June, the verdict was announced in the case against Ali Fattouh, president of the Independent Public Transport Authority Workers’ Union. Ali was found ‘not guilty’ by the court – a clear victory of the union and the workers’ movement as a whole. We received the following statement from his lawyer, Haitham Muhammadain…
Update: 13.13 31/05/11 – According to Gigi Ibrahim, Hossam and Reem have left the court and have not been charged. You can still add your signature to the statement as part of our on-going campaign against the criminalisation of protest and dissent in Egypt. Background: Journalists Hossam el-Hamalawy, Reem Maged and Nabil Sharaf al-Din…
1. Ask one of the delegation of British trade unionists who went to Egyptrecently to come to your union branch/campaign. To book a speaker please email menasolidarity@gmail.com Members of the RMT, PCS, NUJ, UCU, NUT and CWU went on the delegation and met the activists and leaders of the independent unions who are at the…
Statement from meeting on 1 March 2011 in solidarity with Independent Trade Unions in Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We celebrate the heroic struggles of workers in MENA who have played a vital role in bringing down tyrants across the region. We support their continuing battles for genuine democracy and social justice. We agree…
MENA Solidarity Network 