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Al-Ahram Weekly 27 April - 3 May 2000 Issue No. 479 
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Al-Ahram Weekly 27 April - 3 May 2000 Issue No. 479
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Egypt Region International Economy Opinion Culture Special Features Travel Living Sports Profile People Time Out Chronicles Cartoons Letters Labour Day
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak is due to deliver today the annual Labour Day speech which is expected to tackle the latest developments on the domestic, regional and international fronts, presidency sources said. President Mubarak will also honour 10 veteran workers during a special celebration due to take place at Nasr City's International Conferences Centre. More than 2,500 workers representing the industrial sector have been invited to attend the celebration. The president has made it a habit to meet workers and trade union leaders on the occasion. The head of the Egyptian Trade Unions Federation, El-Sayed Rashed, will also deliver a speech explaining the federation's stand on a draft labour law and the government's privatisation policy.
Free press
STUDENTS at Tehran's technical university suspended classes for the day yesterday as peaceful protests against the banning of 13 pro-reform publications spread across the country. Hundreds of students rallied inside the campus, chanting slogans, clapping and stamping their feet in unison and vowing to support a free press, a central element of President Mohamed Khatami's reform movement.The rally, like others in Tehran and in a number of universities across Iran, remained confined to the campus and ended peacefully, Reuters reported. The hard-line judge of Tehran's press court has, meanwhile, warned Khatami's brother to curb his pro-reform newspaper Mosharekat, criticising both its content and format.
