Egypt: Teachers’ union activists detained by military

Translation of report in Arabic by Hisham Fouad. Original here. Update: 19 June. Court finds teacher union activists not guilty of incitement to strike and assaulting a police officer. 13 June Prosecutors in Nasr City, Cairo, ordered the detention of two supply teachers, Atif al-Gazzar, secretary of the Independent Supply Teachers’ Union from Kafr al-Dawwar…

Egypt: Teachers’ unions and the revolution

Egyptian schoolteachers were at the forefront of the struggle to build independent unions in the year before the 25 January revolution and have played a key role in organising strikes since the fall of Mubarak. The Independent Teachers’ Syndicate was founded in July 2010 with a membership of around 5000. The new union called for…