Sunday June 18, 2006.Egypt: Lawsuit of 26 peasants including 6 women of the village of Sarando and their lawyer 26 peasants whose 6 women of the village of Sarando and their lawyer, shown slandering, aggravated assault and degradations, to have burned the bulldozers come to dislodge them and marked the police force to have tortured them in January 2005, are judged by the High state security court in Damanhour, this Sunday June 18, 2006. Since 1997, the law of “release of the beams” authorizes the owners to increase the tenant farming as good seems to them. Nonsatisfied to exploit the farmers or to force them to give up the ground, the great landowners also attack the small holders, recipients of the land reform. The public administration of the grounds of the land reform, in complicity with the great landowners, refuses to provide to the peasants their documents of title, and the courts make expel the peasants of the pieces that they have cultivated for 40 years When the peasants have their titles, as in Sarando, the owners attack them with bulldozers and armed bands, destroy their houses, the police force tortures the peasants, their wives and children to make them give up their rights. Among the victims, Nafissa Al-Marakby, 38 years, die on March 15, 2005, after being tortured by Mohamed Amar chief of the police force with Damahour. Its family gives up under the threats the lawsuit which it had brought. Today, the parquet floor continues 26 peasants who resist their attackers like their lawyer, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, in front of emergency courts. The officer responsible for the sequestration of the peasants and for died of Nafissa, from now on feeling sorry for against the peasants and their lawyer, is always able to make stop and torture the peasants who oppose him and to the land great landowners. Last on May 21, in the area of Dekernes, the police force in an extreme violence however expelled of their ground of the small farmers full owners. Whereas they expressed peacefully, 25 of them, an activist and a journalist were stopped after getting beaten up. Send your protests against this iniquitous lawsuit and the repression which the Egyptian peasants with the embassies of Egypt of your countries undergo. Thank you to send a copy of your sending to the Peasant Solidarity Committee: egyptianpeasantsolidarity@gawab.com 15 june 2006The Peasant Solidarity Committee – EGYPT                                  p.s.c