• Typhoid Pestilence
Threatens Damas .
• Egypt's Cabinet to Dispossess 155 Thousand
People State Property & Public Benefit: State's
Pretexts to Displace Citizens .
The Misdemeanors Court of Monsha`t Nasser issued a verdict today on the Doweyqa case by the imprisonment for five years for the first defendant, a deputy governor of Cairo governorate, and three years for seven defendants who are also employees of the State.
The Arrest of 150 inhabitants from Al-Warraq Island
16 May 2010
By : ECHR
Yesterday before, 14th of May, after a violent clash between the police force and Al-Warraq Island`s inhabitants the police force applied a random arrest of 150 inhabitants from their homes.
The demolition of 15 poor homes in Port Said without compensation or alternative housing
4 May 2010
By : ECHR
Yesterday, Tuesday 4th of May, the inhabitants of Zerzara (Port Said governorate), which is an informal area, surprised by a huge police force that accompanied by bulldozers. The police force evacuated and demolished 15 poor homes, built of bricks and woods, without any prior notification, compensation or alternative housing.
In the context of the railway inferno and the collapse of buildings, it seems that Egypt`s poor are destined to suffer from a chain of other `natural` calamities. Residents of Damas, a village in Dakahliya Governorate, are expected to be the subject of another chapter of this endless tragedy, which, albeit conforming with the general context of victimizing the poor, restores to our memory the heinous horrors of the Middle Ages. In the epoch of globalisation and high-tech innovations, villagers of Damas are hit by the Typhoid infection, which, according to the statement of the Minister of Health, Dr Mohammad Awad, to Al-Arabi Weekly, threatens to become a disastrous epidemic.
Egypt`s Cabinet to Dispossess 155 Thousand People State Property & Public Benefit: State`s Pretexts to Displace Citizens
2 July 2010
On 25 April 2001 the Egyptian cabinet passed a decree No. 542/2001 that considered the land of the two islands of al-Warraq and al-Dahab as areas allocated to public utilization. Unlike the established custom of law enforcement that brings laws and decrees into force after one month of official publication, the decree No.543/2001 comes into effect once it is officially promulgated.
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