Egypt – Labor and trade union leaders demanded the immediate release of Mohamed Abdelkhaliq and Ayman Abdel Tawab, employees of the Public Transport Authority who have been imprisoned since September 23, on charges of calling on for a strike. The campaign to defend public transport workers said in a statement that the strike is a constitutional and legal right and practicing it is not a crime, stressing its refusal to detain workers and fabricate the charges against them because of their trade union activity. The Interior Ministry threatened Tareq al-Beheiri, Mohammed Hashim, Tarek Yousef and Ahmed Sox, who were imprisoned in the same case, and that they will arbitrary assault them if they returned to trade union activity again, the campaign said. the arrested workers were calling for a strike if certain economic demands were not met. The six workers met with their colleagues inside the garages and agreed to set a date for the strike as a form of pressure at the beginning of the school year, but security arrested them on September 23, a day before the strike.
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