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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Egypt Solidarity <m...@egyptsolidarityinitiative.net> Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:00 AM Subject: Solidarity with Alexandria shipyard workers and Egypt's threatened lawyers To: acpolla...@gmail.com *Mobilise solidarity with Alexandria Shipyard workers and Egypt's threatened lawyers* View this email in your browser <http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=3a1ae4bc7d&e=648a69b186> Egyptian trade unionists call on global labour movement to support Alexandria Shipyard workers Leading Egyptian trade unionists have launched an open letter <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=4a13a5219a&e=648a69b186> 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 face a jail term for organising to improve their pay and conditions at work. The 26 workers were sent to trial after the military police surrounded the Shipyard in May this year, and arrested workers on charges of “incitement to strike”. The letter is backed by the Egyptian Union of Oil Workers, and by Mettawa Mahran, founder of the Independent Union for Private Sector Workers, Su’ad Omar a well-known trade union activist from Suez, Raed al-Husseini, president of the Independent Teachers Union and Fatma Ramadan, a trade union activist with a long history of organising among civil service workers. “Putting the Alexandria Shipyard workers on trial in a military court is a plain violation of international covenants, to which Egypt is a signatory,” the letter notes. “These state that workers enjoy the right to peaceful protests, in addition to freedom of expression and the right to negotiations to realize their legitimate demands for fair salaries and appropriate conditions of work” Activists have already organised a widely-supported campaign within Egypt, mobilising hundreds of signatures from trade unionists and political activists on a statement in defence <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=344e4c4129&e=648a69b186> of the Alexandria Shipyard workers, and calling a public meeting in Cairo on 15 August to build the solidarity movement. The open letter calls on trade unions around the world to send letters of protest to Egyptian President al-Sisi, condemning the use of a military trial against workers exercising their right to organise and collectively defend their conditions at work. *What you can do:* - *Read and share the full open letter online here <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=a3eb8df85a&e=648a69b186>* - *Write to the Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi,* Office of the President Al Ittihadia Palace Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt Fax: +202 2 391 1441 Email: p.spokes...@op.gov.eg Twitter: @AlsisiOfficial - *Copies to *Deputy Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Human Rights Laila Bahaa El Din, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Corniche al-Nil, Cairo Arab Republic of Egypt Fax: +202 2574 9713 Email: contact...@mfa.gov.eg Twitter: @MfaEgypt - *Write to Egyptian Minister of Labour, Mohammed Safan,* 3 Yousef Abbas Street, Salah Salem, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt manpo...@manpower.gov.eg - *Sign the international petition in solidarity with the Alexandria Shipyard workers here <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=0551980559&e=648a69b186>* - *Use the social media ban <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=494d37361a&e=648a69b186>ner <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=560392a463&e=648a69b186> and icons <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=cf1a14ca56&e=648a69b186> to spread the message online* - *Share the video of UK trade unionists speaking out in support of the Alexandria Shipyard workers here <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=e3e53e7242&e=648a69b186>* - *Pass a resolution in protest at the trial through your union branch* - *Read more here <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=a613b621b4&e=648a69b186> on how military trials are being used to rush through unjust verdicts based on ‘evidence’ obtained through torture* - *Download a copy of our background briefing on the Egyptian workers’ movement here <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=c995e74f21&e=648a69b186>* *Lawyers across Europe demand release of Malek Adly* Dozens of prominent lawyers from across Europe are calling for the release of Malek Adl <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=8403058a32&e=648a69b186> y <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=662dcc6171&e=648a69b186>, 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 <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=404e055124&e=648a69b186> and Ahmed Abdallah, legal adviser to Giulio Regeni's family. Signatories include Richard Harvey QC and John Hendy QC; Professor Bill Bowring, Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, Bjorn Elmquist, Chairman of the Danish Legal Affairs Association and Thomas Schmidt from European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights ELDH. The crackdown on dissent and protest in Egypt has seen tens of thousands arrested, detained and jailed by the military regime. Whenever activists are seized in a dawn raid, protesters arrested in the streets, striking workers detained on the picketline, or the police shoot somebody and then charge him with assault, campaigning lawyers will swing into action, tracking down prisoners, supporting their families and defending their rights in front of the prosecutors and the courts. Now many of these same lawyers themselves are under threat from the regime, facing arrest, abusive conditions in detention and long prison terms. Malek Adly's lawyers report that they have been refused permission to photocopy his case files and that the court denied Malek the right to be represented by a lawyer of his choice in a recent appeal hearing against the extension of his detention. He is a founding member of the Front for Defending Egypt's Protesters, a group comprising 34 human rights organisations and independent lawyers, which defends peaceful protesters and documents illegal practices carried out by state police forces against them. Malek has been admitted to the prison hospital several times, due to a chronic high blood pressure condition and lack of prescribed medicine and is suffering from exhaustion, back pain, and sore joints in his leg. *What you can do:* - *Add your name to the letter online here <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=ee00aa1b4a&e=648a69b186>* - *Share the campaign video <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=de24633b1a&e=648a69b186> for Malek Adly* <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=669f4510fb&e=648a69b186> <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=0d3a25f2c4&e=648a69b186> <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=3ef110695a&e=648a69b186> *Copyright © 2016 MENA Solidarity Network / Egypt Solidarity Initiative, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because either you signed one of MENA Solidarity's statements on Egypt and asked us to keep you up-to-date with our Egypt solidarity campaigns.or you gave us your email at an Egypt Solidarity campaign event or through one of our email campaigns *Our mailing address is:* MENA Solidarity Network / Egypt Solidarity Initiative Unit 193, 15-17 Caledonian Road London, N1 9DX United Kingdom Add us to your address book <http://egyptsolidarityinitiative.us3.list-manage.com/vcard?u=c9f63bc0526145a2dbe8f5300&id=f1c3648ff9> Want to change how you receive these emails? 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