> > Solidarity with the people of Mahalla
> >
> > Stop the show trial of Egyptian protestors
> > We the undersigned express our full solidarity with the 49 Egyptian citizens,
> > whom the Mubarak regime has decided to prosecute in an Emergency High State
> > Security Criminal Court, accused of involvement in the two day uprising in the
> > Nile Delta town of Mahalla in April. On the 6th and 7th April, Mubarak’s troops
> > occupied, Ghazl el-Mahalla, the biggest textile mill in the Middle East, home
> > to 27,000 workers, aborting a strike announced by the independent Textile
> > Workers’ League in protest at spiralling food prices and to demand a raise in
> > the minimum wage which has remained stagnant since 1984.
> >
> > The troops used live ammunition, tear gas, water cannons and sticks against the
> > peaceful protestors in the town who took to the streets after the crushing of
> > the strike. At least three were killed, and hundreds were injured and detained.
> > The 49 detainees face a list of trumped up charges, to which some have
> > confessed under torture. They will be tried in an exceptional court,
> > systematically denounced by human rights watchdogs for lacking the
> > international standards for a “safe and just trial.”
> >
> > We call on the Egyptian dictatorship to release them immediately.
> >
> > Mark Serwotka, General Secretary, PCS
> > Jane Loftus, President, Postal Executive, CWU
> > Trevor Ngwane – Anti-Privatisation Forum, South Africa
> > Professor Alex Callinicos, King’s College, London
> > Eamonn McCann, journalist and anti-war campaigner, Ireland
> > Richard Boyd-Barrett, People not Profit Alliance, Ireland
> > Chris Nineham, Stop the War Coalition
> > James Eaden, National Executive, UCU
> > and 346 other signatories
> >
> > Add your name:
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> >
> > Petition organised by the Cairo Conference Committee UK. Return names to
> > ‘Cairo Conference’ c/o Stop the War, 27 Britannia Street, London, UK, WC1X
> > 9JP or by email to cairoconference@stopwar.org.uk. Names will be added to a
> > statement to be delivered to the Egyptian embassy in London.
> > For more information about the campaign contact
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