Demonstrators marched through the streets of Cairo against new laws restricting the right to protest on Saturday 26 October. What you can do: Print out these posters [anti_protest_poster_bw and anti_protest_poster] and leaflet to distribute and send us a solidarity picture via Facebook or Twitter (@menasolidarity) Pass a resolution in your union branch condemning the anti-protest law Send a letter of protest to…
Picture: Margaret Gordon, Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year, Nadine el-Enany, Defend the Right to Protest and Susannah Mengesha, who won a case against the police ‘kettling’ of demonstrators in England recently A draft law which demands that protesters give notice of planned demonstrations, and allows the police to create exclusion zones in front of key…
Egyptian revolutionary activist and labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain addressed hundreds of trade unionists at the Unite the Resistance ‘Organising to Win’ conference on 19 October in specially recorded video. Haitham said: “Firstly I would like to thank the comrades in the UK for the broad solidarity campaign with the Egyptian workers’ movement, as well as…
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) demanded that the Korean government refuse to grant an export license for a huge shipment of tear gas to Bahrain. Campaigners from BahrainWatch have exposed how the Bahrain authorities are seeking to replenish their supplies of tear gas after the massive wave of repression this summer against opposition…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – From BahrainWatch Go to http://stoptheshipment.org/ to take action now Contact: bill@bahrainwatch.org Twitter: @bhwatch October 16, 2013 LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS MASSIVE NEW TEAR GAS SHIPMENT PLANNED FOR BAHRAIN Bahrain Government Apparently Intends to Stockpile More Tear Gas Canisters than People in Country [Manama] Bahrain’s Ministry of Interior is planning to import 1.6…
Colleagues from the teachers’ unions in Tunisia sent MENA Solidarity a copy of the following message which they have sent to the NUT and NASUWT teachers’ unions in the UK in solidarity with their ongoing strikes to defend their pay and pensions. At the bottom of this article you will find details of how you…
Updated 3 October: the sit-in at the Ministry of Labour was forcibly broken up by the police, but the workers are continuing their campaign for justice, organising a demonstration at the General Prosecutor’s office (above) in protest at police brutality. By Haitham Mohamedain – original Arabic here Dozens of sacked workers have begun a sit-in…
Protests have been spreading across Sudan over the last week over cuts to fuel subsidies imposed by the regime of Omar al-Bashir. The video below shows demonstrators marching in the street chanting “Freedom” – hurriya. They have been met with brutal force by the Sudanese authorities, with at least 50 shot dead by the police…
Picture: Jane Loftus from the Communication Workers’ Union Dozens of trade union leaders signed a statement in solidarity Haitham Mohamedain, the Egyptian labour lawyer and revolutionary activist who was arrested last week, during TUC Congress in Bournemouth. Activists from MENA Solidarity also raised the crackdown on Egyptian revolutionaries, opponents of the military government and the…
Egyptian labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain gives a full account of his arrest and detention in this interview with Gigi Ibrahim. Haitham’s arrest on 5 September sparked an international campaign for his release and protests across Egypt. He thanked all those who had supported him, adding: “this amazing and powerful solidarity had the greatest impact in…
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