El-Beheiry is a 25-year-old textile worker-turned-labor rights activist. El-Beheiry's blog, egyworkers, is dedicated to fighting for labor rights and for bloggers who have been detained by the Egyption government. El-Beheiry has a vast online gallery of pictures covering all the labor strikes that have been held in Egypt. 

El- Beheiry has published pictures showing the bullets used by the Egyptian police against protesters in the villages of Jazeerat Mohamad and Tanash in the Al Jeeza province. He has described how the Egyptian police used violence and tear gas in order to disperse the 3000 protesters who gathered on Friday protesting a decision by Ahmad Nazif, the Egyptian prime minister, that will lead to the confiscation of farming land from the inhabitants of the village of Jazeerat Mohamad and other villages in the Al Jeeza province. The villagers regard the official excuse â€" that the land is being confiscated in order to be redistricted to another province â€" as a pretext. They see the main reason behind the confiscation to be the government’s desire to construct tourism facilities, according to El-Beheiry.  The security forces closed the road where the people were protesting, and also closed many of the houses and broke into three homes. Some of the inhabitants have suffocated due to the gas bombs that have been used by the security and it is as yet uncertain whether there have been any deaths.  El-Beheiry has published a video showing the smoke that was caused by the shooting, and he published directions to the protest for those who want to attend and support the protesters.  El-Beheiry was arrested on April 6, 2008 for allegedly instigating a riot and damaging public property at Mahalla (Egypt's largest textile factory). El-Beheiry was held at Borg El-Arab where he reports that he was tortured by beating and electric shock and denied food and drink. He was released from jail on June 1, 2008.