Egypt has always seemed a country away to in Spain, a country which historically have not had the political or cultural ties, but today is a neighbor of the Mediterranean area.
Egypt has always been a key - to its geopolitical situation, the Suez Canal, by its political weight and economic, cultural and demographic in the world Arabic. A country is necessarily involved in the Palestinian conflict. Currently their meager dictatorship, corrupt and repressive, personally figure Mubarak - octogenarian, patient and great U.S. ally - is in crisis. The Islamists are the main force of opposition.
But this scene has been transformed in recent years a new phenomenon: great struggles in the factories - especially textiles the industry - the emergence of a new independent union movement, the union official is fully integrated within the state repressor. The regime's response to this new movement has been predictable: repression and torture in detention. Stop the trial farce
Egyptian demonstrators
begin trials of 49 Egyptian citizens accused of being involved in the two-day uprising in Mahalla, a city in the Nile Delta in April 2008.On 6 and 7 April, the troops took Mubarak Ghazl el-Mahalla, the biggest textile factory in the Middle East, home to 27,000 workers, aborting a strike announced by the Independent League Textile Workers to protest the rising price spiral of food and to require an increased minimum wage has remained stagnant since 1984.
The troops used live ammunition, tear gas, water cannons and clubs against peaceful protestors in the town who took to the streets after the crushing of the strike. At least three people were killed and hundreds were injured and detained.
The 49 arrested face a list of false charges, many of them confessed under torture. They will be tried by a court of exception, which has systematically denounced by human rights watchdogs for its lack of international standards to ensure a "safe and fair trial."
trials begin on November 8. The undersigned personally demand Egyptian dictatorship to release her immediately.
Alfonso Bech (Secretariat Cooperation CCOO)
Txell Bragulat (Technical Director, Sodepau)
Cañadell Rosa (USTEC)
Alex Hinn (Palestinian Community of Catalonia)
Marc Jamal (network link with Palestine)
David Karvala (Platform Stop War)
Roque Martinez (Company Committee TV3)
Saturnino Mercader (Chairman, Committee for the bus company TMB)
Omar Minguillón (UGT, Iberia, Barcelona)
JM Navarro Cantero (President, Sodepau)
Carlos Vallejo (Barcelona CCOO)
Robin M. White (CCOO)
Add your name to this list. Send us an e-mail concairo@gmail.com .
Letters of protest (see model attached in English) to:
of the Interior Minister General Habib El Adly El Sheikh Rihan Street
Cairo Arab Republic of Egypt
(00 202 2 5792031 Fax. E-mail: Moi1@idsc.gov.eg )
Embassy of Egypt in Spain C / Velázquez, 69 28006 Madrid
(Fax 91 578 1732. E-mail: info@ecros.org )
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