Leading trade unionists from the port cities of Portsmouth, home to some of the UK’s historic naval dockyards, and Piraeus in Greece are backing the campaign in solidarity with the Alexandria Shipyard workers in the run up to their military court hearing on 18 September. A group of 26 workers from the Shipyard have been…
by Carlotta Mingardi Seven months after the body of Giulio Regeni, the young Italian researcher from Cambridge, was found lifeless in Cairo, with evident signs of torture, Italian senator Luigi Manconi, Amnesty Italy and Giulio’s parents are calling on the Italian government to resist pressure from Egypt to restore full diplomatic relations. Italian civil society has also…
Campaigners and activists in Egypt and internationally were today celebrating the release of Malek Adly, a prominent human rights lawyer and activist who was arrested in May this year and held in solitary confinement on charges relating to the 25 April protests over the Tiran and Sanafir Islands. His legal team successfully challenged a further…
Dozens of prominent lawyers from across Europe are calling for the release of Malek Adly, a prominent human rights lawyer who was arrested on 5 May and remains in detention awaiting trial. The letter highlights the on-going crackdown against lawyers and human rights activists, including labour lawyer Haitham Mohamedain and Ahmed Abdallah, legal adviser to…
Leading Egyptian trade unionists have launched an open letter calling on the global labour movement to mobilise solidarity for the Alexandria Shipyard workers, as the military court postponed the verdict in their trial for a second time until 18 September. The workers will face another month in horrific detention conditions without knowing whether they will…
The solidarity campaign in Egypt with 26 workers from Alexandria Shipyard who are awaiting the verdict in their trial before a military court on 2 August stepped up a gear last week, with the publication of a solidarity statement signed by a dozen political parties and campaigns, and nearly 200 individual trade unionists, lawyers, journalists,…
Leading UK trade unionists pledged their support for the Alexandria Shipyard workers who are awaiting the verdict in their military trial for organising to demand better pay and conditions. Alan Gibson from the National Union of Journalists, Tony Philips from UNISON’s branch representing support workers in the London Fire Brigade and Dean Ryan of Islington…
A hard-hitting report by Amnesty International released on 13 July, documents how enforced disappearances and torture in the name of “counterterrorism” have become “a key instrument of state policy” under the watch of President Abdelfattah al-Sisi. The report confirms the picture already uncovered by Egyptian NGOs, of hundreds of people suffering abduction and torture…
Trade unionists and activists from the UK, US and Ireland have rallied to support the launch of a petition calling for the release of workers at Alexandria Shipyard who are on trial in an Egyptian military court. The workers were arrested after staging a sit-in to demand payment of bonuses and permanent contracts for a…
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