{"id":402505,"date":"2019-04-03T05:44:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T04:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights\/"},"modified":"2019-04-03T05:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T04:44:34","slug":"egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s Brutal Crackdown on Workers\u2019 Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_110536\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110536\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110536\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/1024px-Khaled_Abol_Naga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/1024px-Khaled_Abol_Naga.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/1024px-Khaled_Abol_Naga-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/1024px-Khaled_Abol_Naga-768x459.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-110536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">daly3d abd \u2013 originally posted to Flickr as \u062e\u0627\u0644\u062f \u0627\u0628\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062c\u0627 \u2013 CC BY 2.0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Khaled Abol Naga \u2013 an outspoken critic of the Egyptian government \u2013 stands accused of treason\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">(AFP).\u00a0<\/span><\/em>It was comical, farcical, droll. An actor\u2019s dream if you were going to put the drama on stage or screen \u2013 but the three principal characters were actors themselves. The lead player, as usual in\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/Egypt\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-8843731-\/topic\/Egypt\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">Egypt<\/a>, was His Excellency Field Marshal President\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-0\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-8843731-\/topic\/abdel-fattah-el-sisi-0\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">Abdel Fattah el-Sisi<\/a>, and the theme of this theatrical production was an old and familiar one: the power of trade unions and the fear of real revolution.<b\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">But we\u2019ll start with the latest act, virtually ignored in the west where freedom of speech, workers\u2019 rights and liberty are \u201cprecious\u201d, \u201csacrosanct\u201d, \u201cclose to our hearts\u201d. This week, two prominent Egyptian actors, Amr Waked and Khaled Abol Naga, were expelled from the government-controlled Egyptian actors\u2019 union for \u201ctreachery\u201d. They were condemned for \u201cbetraying the nation\u201d and working for \u201cthe agenda of conspirators against Egypt\u2019s security and stability\u201d. The head of the union told AFP that the two men \u201cwill no longer be allowed to act in Egypt\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Although Waked won the best actor award at the Dubai film festival five years ago and starred in 2005 film\u00a0<em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Syriana<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/GeorgeClooney\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-8843731-https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/GeorgeClooney\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">George Clooney<\/a>, the starring performance of both men came last Monday when they used the platform of a US congressional hearing to condemn the worsening human rights situation in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/02\/egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>daly3d abd \u2013 originally posted to Flickr as \u062e\u0627\u0644\u062f \u0627\u0628\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062c\u0627 \u2013 CC BY 2.0 Khaled Abol Naga \u2013 an outspoken critic of the Egyptian government \u2013 stands accused of treason\u00a0(AFP).\u00a0It was comical, farcical, droll. An actor\u2019s dream if you were going to put the drama on stage or screen \u2013 but the three principal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}