Leader of the National Association for Change (NAC) and former IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei canceled his meeting with NAC members scheduled for yesterday, in order to travel tomorrow to the US, where he will stay for several weeks. Ali ElBaradei, the NAC leader's brother and press contact, said his brother confirmed that he will maintain ongoing communication with association members, even during his US visit. Ali noted that ElBaradei will give a lecture at Harvard University about nuclear non-proliferation, and is also expected to meet with the Egyptian community in Boston. Meanwhile, a number of NAC members met yesterday with the Kuwaiti ambassador, Rashid al-Ahmad, to discuss the recently deported Egyptians who were forced to leave Kuwait due to their activities in support of ElBaradei. The parties agreed to hold another meeting, between al-Ahmad and the deported Egyptians, within a few days, and reached an agreement on protecting the financial rights of those deported. Hassan Nafaa, NAC coordinator, quoted the ambassador as saying that Kuwaiti job contracts prohibit political activism. Nafaa said he told the ambassador that the measures taken against the deported Egyptians had nothing to do with politics. Meanwhile, the UAE has decided to block the Save Egypt Front website. Rights groups attributed the move to the website's vigor in following ElBaradei's activities. ElBaradei yesterday commented on his Twitter account about his meeting with a number of labor leaders. "I listened to the workers, and I discovered they do not have the right to form their own independent syndicates. Eight million workers have temporary job contracts, 30,000 were prevented from voting in syndicate elections, and there is no minimum wage," he said. Translated from the Arabic Edition.
