Moustafa Yaftasem's List: CKDU news

• This Saturday morning, the supreme court decided to remove all security guards from ministry of interior on university campuses and replace them with security guards who follow rules of the ministry of education instead. The issue started more than two years ago after a professor - and member of 9 March university independence movement - filed a lawsuit to expel police officers form campus. - Moustafa Yaftasem on 2010-10-23

• Female students at Al-Azhar University in the Nile Delta city of Zagazig on Sunday staged a sit-in on campus, claiming they had been assaulted by campus security after refusing to submit to body searches.

   

  Police eventually dispersed the protesters, arresting ten male students that had been supporting their female colleagues.

   

  According to one protester, female students were beaten by campus police after they asked to be searched by female security personnel.

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  It’s true that some students continue to participate in elections despite this pattern of repression, but the silent and frustrated majority prefers to stay away and considers election day just another holiday.

• Dr. Nafaa is currently a professor and chairman of Political Science department at Cairo University. He is a specialist on International Relations/ Organization and Middle East politics - Moustafa Yaftasem on 2010-10-23

• An International Report on Egyptian labor practices prepared by the Center for International Labor Solidarity, under the supervision of a Gules Benin, one of the leading experts in the field of labor issues in Egypt under the title “The Struggle for the rights of Workers in Egypt” said that Egypt does not abide by the terms of international conventions on workers rights, despite being a signatory.
• he report indicated that the number of workers who have organized and participated in protests hit 1.7 million workers, “most of whom were affiliated with the public sector” and while the protests of private-sector workers was substantial, the report shows changes in the Egyptian society since the inauguration of Ahmed Nazif as Prime Minister in 2004.
• t said that due to a lack of democratic reforms being promoted credibility after the presidential elections and the 2005 Parliamentary vote, “the government has stepped up the pace of repression against all opposition forces and the labor movement gives the government a chance to listen to the people and apply the long-awaited political and economic changes but if the government doesn’t comply to these demands, this can lead to the collapse of national security.”

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• Protesters demanded the government implement a decision taken in May to raise their salaries.
• The employees on Monday announced they would organize a march from Tahrir Square to the People's Assembly, but instead they opted to stage their sit-in in front of the cabinet.
• Employees will receive their new contracts within a week and their new salaries will be disbursed by December, al-Mahgoub told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Salaries will range between LE320-380.

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• Al-Masry: Has Egypt followed capitalism?

   

  Abdel Khaleq: Of course not. The reality tells us that we are applying a sort of Memluke feudalism, with each tycoon controlling a specific sector of economy, and all of this is far away from capitalism, which is, eventually, governed by gain-seeking mechanisms.

• The High Administrative Court has decided to uphold the ruling ... which revoked the interior minister's decision to establish security units on university campuses," a court statement said.

  "The presence of permanent Interior Ministry police forces inside the Cairo University campus represents an impairment of the independence guaranteed to the university by the constitution and the law," the court added.
• The decision to install Interior Ministry police on public university campuses dates back to September 1981, when President Anwar Sadat rounded up political opponents, Mustafa said. Sadat was assassinated in October 1981.

• The ruling comes in the run-up to Egypt's parliamentary elections, scheduled for November 28. While the ruling party's dominance is not in doubt, the poll is expected to test government restrictions on political opposition ahead of a 2011 presidential vote.

  President Hosni Mubarak, 82, has not said whether he will seek a sixth six-year term, but members of the ruling party have indicated that he would seek re-election.

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