-- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Long before the sun comes up, Gaza's musaharatis, or public wakers, are hard at work — banging on drums to get people out of bed for pre-dawn prayers during the holy month of Ramadan.It's a killer.
The job has never been fun, but a year of bloody infighting in Gaza has forced the wakers to be politically aware, too. Before, they could chant the praises of a political or religious figure while waking the people.
Now they have to take care that they're not praising a Fatah leader in a Hamas stronghold — or the other way around.
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Well... apparently not Human Rights Watch.
-- (New York, September 18, 2007) -- The Egyptian government's decree dissolving one of the country's leading human rights organizations is an affront to freedom of association, Human Rights Watch said today.Yup... who could have seen that coming?
The government move to shut down AHRLA follows its closure of the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS), which offers legal aid to Egyptian factory workers and reports on labor-rights issues in the country.
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