While he was leaving to Brussels to attend the ITUC meeting

The CTUWS General Coordinator was subjected to aggressive measures

While he was leaving to Brussels, Kamal Abbas-The General Coordinator of CTUWS was surprised by adopting aggressive measures and provocations against him in Cairo Airport. Policemen and security persons who informed Mr. kamal with the suspending of his departure until reviewing his information, took his passport, and  keeping him waiting for nothing more than one hour; claiming that enquiries should be made to complete a report  to submit to security bodies. Recently, Mr. Abbas was handed his passport, permitted to depart, and to catch hardly his flight.

It is worthy mentioning that the General Coordinator of CTUWS subjected to those measures while he was going to attend the International Trade Unions Confederation –ITUC- Third Annual Meeting on Trade Union Development in Arab and Middle Eastern Countries. The Meeting that took place in Brussels on 2^nd, 3^rd, July, is discussing the ITUC action in the region, while its program is including the international crisis and its economic and social impact in the region, protection of trade union rights instruments and trade union cooperation.

Also-It is worthy mentioning that it was the first time-since three years- Kamal Abbas subjected to those types of assaults which the Security bodies had stopped to practice against him- then- when the Egyptian National Council for Human Rights-ENCHR had practiced its influence to handle this issue.

The Center for Trade Union and Workers Services-CTUWS while expresses its utmost sorrow and concern of re-practicing those unjustifiable and unexplainable measures against its General Coordinator, it emphasizes the right of its activists and presenters to move freely inside and outside, and to participate in the International events and contribute to the international labour and trade union movement without subjecting to provocations, security interventions and physiological abuse. The CTUWS calls upon the Egyptian Governmental and executive bodies to stop all forms of violations, provocations, and aggressive measures that practiced against activists and human rights defenders when they depart or coming back to their home-country.

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The Center of Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS)

Thursday, 2, July, 2009