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No activists, journalists or political prisoners were among the 3,157 people granted an #Eid pardon by #Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi but an ex-policeman who butchered a woman in her home was. google.com/amp/s/www.alja…
Ex-policeman Mohsen al-Sukkari was sentenced in 2010 to 25 years for the murder of popular #Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim.

A court had found that al-Sukkari acted on instructions from #Egyptian real estate tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa - who was close to the regime - for $2m.
The 2008 killing of Tamim, Moustafa's lover, sparked public outcry across the Arab region.

Moustafa, a well-known businessman, was sentenced to 15yrs for his part in the crime, but Sisi granted him a pardon in 2017 on health grounds.

So now Sisi has pardoned both men. #Egypt
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From April but remains relevant:

“The coronavirus has dealt a body blow to U.S. workers. So far, it's women who are paying much of the price.”

Of +700k jobs eliminated in 1st wave of pandemic layoffs in March: nearly 60% of those jobs were held by women.
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And women in science, too.

“Women in science are battling both #Covid19 and the patriarchy.”

The pandemic has worsened longstanding sexist and racist inequalities in science pushing many of us to say ‘I’m done’, write 35 female scientists timeshighereducation.com/blog/women-sci…
“In some ways,the issues we face represent an exacerbation of the inequalities we’ve always had to manage.But what’s surprising & demoralising is seeing the fault lines of sexism that define our unequal footing with men crack into gaping chasms under the pressure of the pandemic”
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“We continue to learn of lethal violence during the pandemic with the murder of eight women and one girl in just 36 days in #Canada. These femicides can and must be prevented”
#COVID
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“many victims have lost access to telephones or computers,” including children who may be in danger.

In some #Canadian cities, police and women’s shelter workers have seen an increase in violence involving an intimate partner. #COVID
“We can’t just throw more money at the response; let’s put money at the beginning, upstream...Let’s put money into stopping this violence.” #Canada #COVID
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- By mid-May, NYC alone had almost 20,000 deaths; San Francisco only 35.

- NY state as a whole suffered 10 times as many deaths as California.

Andrew Cuomo is no hero. He's to blame for New York's coronavirus catastrophe theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #NYC h/t @SonofBaldwin
“There’s something disturbing about Cuomo being hailed as the hero of the pandemic when he should rightly be one of the villains. As Business Insider notes, he is now only able to attain praise for his actions because his earlier failures made those actions necessary.”
“...part of this is because Donald Trump has bungled the coronavirus response even more badly, so that Cuomo – by not being a complete buffoon – looks like a capable statesman by contrast...”
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