 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines, Indian workers and farmers leaders arrested ahead of historic strike, talks between Libya's warring factions resume, repression of activists intensifies in Egypt, and human rights organizations demand release of Myanmar's student activists. In our first story, two days ahead of a massive workers' strike and a protest by farmers, authorities of a state government in India have detained leaders of protesting groups. In many years, 31 trade union and farmers' leaders were arrested by the government of the Indian state of Haryana, which is ruled by the far-right Bharati Jirta Party. The arrests have been strongly condemned by organizations participating in the protest. The strike on November 26th, along with a two-day farmers' protest that begins that day, is expected to be one of the largest such protests in India's history. Leaders of the protesting organization said that these acts, arrests were an act of repression and added that it totally emboldened the struggle. Ten central trade union confederations have given a call to observe a general strike on November 26th. This is to press for their chartered of demands, including a minimum wage of Rs. 21,000, which is around US dollars 283, a cash transfer of Rs. 7,500 to all non-income tax-paying families, and more importantly, the withdrawal of the recently passed labor codes. These codes make it easier for workers to be fired, encourage contractualization, as well as restrict unionization. Farmers from across the country will also be protesting. Tens of thousands of farmers from the neighboring states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh are expected to converge in the capital New Delhi. They have a concrete set of demands, too, regarding the minimum support price for their crops, the waving off of debts, and the withdrawal of the recently passed laws, which will enable greater access for corporates in agriculture. In our next story, the second round of peace talks between rival factions in Libya began virtually on Monday. The talks, which are called the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, LPDF, were formally inaugurated by the UN Acting Envoy and the head of its mission in Libya, Stephanie Williams. The mandate of the second round of talks would be to finalize the selection criteria of the unified executive authorities for the period preceding the elections. The elections are scheduled in December next year. United Nations support mission in Libya said in a statement on Monday. The peace talks in Libya started after all rival factions signed a permanent ceasefire in October. The first round of talks was held between November 9th and November 15th in Libya. The talks were inconclusive, as there was no decision on an internal authority for a peaceful transition in the country. However, both parties agreed to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on December 24, 2021, and they constituted a legal committee to decide on the procedure for the elections. We now go to Egypt, where following his arrest last week, prominent human rights activist and executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights, Ghaseer Abdul Razak, was illegally placed in solitary confinement in Cairo's Limontora prison for three days. This was stated by his lawyers and EIPR founder, Chairman Hossam Bhagat on November 23 Monday. According to them, Razak is being submitted to humiliating and barbaric conditions as he completes his 15-day pretrial detention. The activist was arrested after he attended an annual meeting with Western diplomats to discuss the human rights situation in Egypt. Two of his colleagues were also arrested. Speaking to reporters, Bhagat accused, Egyptian authorities are subjecting Razak to inhumane and degrading treatment, intended to cause psychological and physical harm. He further claimed that Razak's life is at grave risk, adding that he has been denied proper clothing despite the hard winter and is forced to sleep on a metal cot. The conditions of his colleagues Karim Enara and Mohammad Bashir, who are also in pretrial detention, is not yet known. One of Razak's defense lawyers stated that an urgent request has been made to the court asking for review of his prison conditions, which are in gross violation of Egyptian constitution and law. Razak reportedly appeared for an investigation session at a court in Cairo. He has been criminally charged with spreading false news joining a terrorist group and undermining public safety. The two other EIPR employees have also been arrested on similar charges. On Monday, a criminal court in Cairo also designated around 28 Egyptian citizens, including some prominent human rights activists, politicians and lawyers as terrorists. Among them is long-term prisoner Al-Abdul-Fadeha. And finally, on Monday, 10 prominent human rights organizations issued a joint statement calling on the Myanmarese government to release activists who were jailed for peacefully protesting against human rights violation in the countries Rakhine and Chin states. The signatory organizations include civil rights defenders, Burma Human Rights Network, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Several activists and students, many of them from the All Burma Federation of Student Unions, have recently been arrested by the Myanmarese authorities for protesting mainly against internet restrictions, which are in place in these states since July 2019. The human rights organizations condemned the Aung San Suu Kyi-led government for arresting students who merely disseminated flyers and attached signs to various public places. As per the statement, the authorities have indulged in, to quote, arbitrary targeting of student activists calling for peace and the end of human rights violations. On September 9th, students in Rakhine state capital organized a protest against restrictions on internet access imposed by the government. Following the protest, authorities arrested three activists by invoking the country's natural disaster management law using the pretext of the COVID-19 pandemic. While these charges were later dropped, the activists are still being held under Section 19 of the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Precision Law. That's all we have time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.