i see despite my job to confront godspeed as on policies and development of the spotlight an issues that matter most hunger for security oppression marginalized seasons. or not has been achieved so much more needs to be john and i feel people have to be at the heart of solutions my name is a massage and i work at g.w. . and. in the small village where i grew up i think the goal should stay at home and raise children. but i think that girls have a right to their freedom. i believe that the situation in egypt was wrong and

needed to be changed people have suffered a lot of injustice and i've seen a lot of corruption. and i knew that one day people would take to the streets and i knew i'd be one of them and it was. when i 1st took to the streets i was shocked but happy. i was much at least half of the protesters were women maybe even the movie. came for me it was a transformative experience freedom and social justice there's differentiate between men and women in. the muslim brotherhood a group long banned here which is by far the biggest underground organization in egypt says it joined the protest. the muslim brotherhood was there with us but they were planning something else and with

a lot of if there. was. a bar called the army but when vehicles rolled into cairo they seemed to take no action against the demonstrators. really and with this chance that the army and the people were united gave hope to a lot of people know. was here how many super president hosni mubarak has decided to step down as president but egypt and to the side of baghdad forces will leave the nation i was. in there and enough in them is how nothing everyone workers farmers people from all classes and women were part of because. they were welcoming. and of course in that moment thinking about what was coming.

even before the revolution my friends and i used to demonstrate at the university. was. that sometimes students looked at us as if we were crazy they made fun of us and laughed. at one point i took a microphone and yelled what are you waiting for stand up for your rights. and then i joined the revolution as an egyptian woman demanding her rights which

were previously disregarded. unfortunately on international women's day when women were so. i'm abridging on to here square the least insulting chant shouted at them was get out of here he

definitions you mother don't kind of cloud bob ryan was cut out there was a hand inside my blouse these men who wrote the prophet out of the koran at the same men who sexually harassed us. thought it the armed forces celebrated women's day or performing virginity tests on 17 girls some iraqi brigade was one of them. they insulted us and beat us she said then shop just with electric prods they ordered the last one dressed completely and split us in not to groups she was forced to lie on

a table and undergo a brush energy test. she told us that the military calls her a prostitute and says this has to mention a 1000000 women and scare them away from protesting. the age of general admitted that the tests had taken place in one general told them that the tests were carried out to help defend the army against potential climbs of rife. with them about when they arrested a lot of young people before virginity tests on the goals they took with the tents . that's really started reevaluation was situation and he by that of canadian and. i said to the kids that's enough i moved to tahrir square here to my house. i told them we could work at my house and whoever wanted to could sleep over but minutes

some of them started to call me mom. and they listened to what i said we didn't know the muslim brotherhood was scheming a behind our back israel where. happening and.

the demanding an end to military rule and handover of power to civilian government . any hope egypt's military would hand over power ahead of its own schedule were dashed in a 2nd day of violence that has left at least 9 dead and hundreds wounded. and if in my entire life i've never seen a crackdown that intense with that many weapons. and that mesh tammie to arrive they. have. was. almost inform them that they were standing on top of the building throwing everything you can possibly imagine at people and chairs desks they were trying to kill people defile and as you know we were shocked after we used to chant the army and the people of one hand. that statements are no good now the military council has to

go. dr out i shall be a killing the revolutionary hero staying silent it's a crime they have to take to the streets i was shocked i was i was in the sex and the financial at the end i was bringing the food to morrow and suddenly the police ambushed us they came out like roaches a huge number of them. i was one of the people they took into custody. one of the soldiers beat me and broke my own 2 feet of one who was cursing at us so i said you should be ashamed of yourself i'm as old as your mother and he got hysterical and smacked me in the face or even now i have a problem with a nerve in my only aim in philosophy and i. never had

any of what he called for someone to take me to the parliament where they were torturing people next that. if i was innocent. and i was arrested on saturday. night as soon as the army court me they stripped me of my veil and. the 1st thing they do is strip a girl of her veil they dragged me by the hair over to a group of soldiers. more than 20 soldiers hit me on the head with batons i needed more than 20 stitches. that's what they went for my 1st your head. if i. they continued to beat and broke me. they groped the private areas of my body 5 of them are placing here

and 20 point. one of the problems this didn't just happen to me. the regime was assaulting the women to break them the role of the people on the obviously been a. 14 people have been killed hundreds injured over the last 3 days because they thought plenty of he's articulate why they provoke outrage and to extend to the police brutality what happened since egypt from women in the streets was a protest that has been called perhaps on the significance of its calling in this country you know it was the way everyone took to the streets because of what happened during the cabinet

clashes i took part in the margin people would tell me make god punish those who humiliated she was the e.u. everyone was king deposed his. of a cartoon of an egyptian woman and. and the hand of the military conscript and you could see the uniform and it says a to either trees are cut off your hand. it was so powerful women marching to sing to muslim at the time which the daughter of egypt will never be stripped was he was in the there were people who understood the pain and they knew that those in an army uniform had reached a point to a instead of protecting you they humiliated him beat you that was no longer a romney i'm sorry i can't respect it or that to him

was was on. the back. i don't know why they sent for my parents to come and get me. now i had to deal with my family and the battle at home and here i think. i see my entire family sides with the military and this program regardless of what the regime is. i'm over the past when i regained consciousness i was at home and locked in a room and be there for the boredom of what it means to have. chile where

my uncle my brother and my grandfather were really angry they said you disgraced us you brought us shame. the whole family was afraid and of course they were they were threatened they could have lost their jobs. and my battle so long. i think my aunt said i cannot face people in the village. i had no way of communicating with people in the by my family took my cell phone cut the internet connection again. and then i wanted to speak up and expose the torturers who did this to me but i couldn't either. of them and then i realized that i was in another prison thing that the prison at home. arthur not that i decided to escape from the window but my arms were in hard plastic part of it but we also lived on the 3rd floor i

plan to walk along the wall to reach the ladder. i just wanted to escape it was a crazy idea i didn't know help but i was determined to do it i mean i had to get out. i broke the plaster cast which was almost up to my elbow but my hands were still broken and i couldn't open the window right. but. they kept me locked up in the house for 55 days i counted every minute every 2nd of each day and i started to think they would never let me out so on the 25th of january the 1st anniversary of the revolution i decided to start my own revolution at home just like the one on the square but this one would be a revolution in spirit. if i found some paper and i started writing statements on them.

for instance i'm not disgraceful i'm not a scandal. to happen i am one of the revolutionaries. of the revolution will continue in every house in egypt until we win again hence once to end the siege and prison will not make me back down. if someone spoke to me i wouldn't. i was on strike i pointed to the signs and they read them and said i had lost my mind i wanted to feel that i was doing something like the people out on the streets i wanted to liberate minds from ignorance from outdated customs and traditions.

i was summoned by the public prosecutor i was questioned as a suspect i was charged with offenses like assaulting police officers throwing bricks of cocktails torching a science research center inciting riots overthrowing the regime damaging public property and possessing weapons despite the fact that we were the victim. and. it was definitely something you're free to have 2 candidates competing really

competing. but it's having to choose between less than. one of mubarak's best friends it's unfair it's unfair for what people have been dreaming about and fighting for it. i knew that if morsi was to become the president of egypt it would be a huge challenge brotherhood would be using the religious narrative when it comes to minimizing the issue of marriage. sexual harassment the prince mission of women in politics this is what i fear the most. common morsi has been sworn in as egypt's 1st democratically elected civilian president.

anything for him a concern from the same brotherhood backed candidates will take egypt down the rate of new strikes is a mess and. it's unclear how much power the new president will have the military council. david self sweeping alice could tell because of the president.

mohamed morsi issued a presidential pardon to all those charged during the revolution. but it was his public prosecutor considered the case of the cabinet clashes to be an anti revolutionary case and against the military so it was excluded from the pardon to create. you. know my family told me they did not want me to live with them at home any more they tried to force me to marry someone i didn't know so i went to cairo. i was in learn.

that i had only myself to depend on i mean all of that. was that. i found an apartment. my family sent messages to my phone my threatening to kill me. they said they would find out where i lived kidnap me and marry me off against my will so it's it's. see. it that it is just i started working at a law center where we try to help all different kinds of people no matter what their political views are kind to me all that matters is that they are an egyptian

citizen who has been assaulted. what we do is provide them with moral public own legal support. was. cut was one of the there are $269.00 defendants in the cabinet clashes case they were individual charges and their group charges was everyone's moved on and we're left to take the blame. and unique thing and and and i did i went to my court hearing how to back up you know me on my way in a police officer insulted me and i spoke back to him. so he took me into a room and ordered the female prison guard to touch private areas of my body once twice 3 times. and i thought.

i was screaming so he would come and get me out of that room mr fundi it was i was one. of them don't cry. we said we'd file a report on the incident. and then we have to figure out what to do about the rest of the case. that it had to hit us like i think it was humiliating very very humiliating he was giving her orders to do that to me . was the ultimate trying to stay calm that's how i operate they're trying to make things difficult for you know. they're out to get me i understand let's not give them any more chances.

that made me more determined to fight against the offices have tortured me they had to be put on trial. because i'm going on and we decided to establish a nation without torture to put pressure on the government. to coffees one with milk. which appears to be the idea started with 6 people who are victims of torture even if we never achieve justice at least we're helping others through the same trauma we experience.

i was i i. thank you for standing up for me don't mention it it's the least we can do. after more 16th of power there was a serious of violations against freedom of expression. there are still people in prison there was the civilians being tried for military quite. good but what accused of blasphemy and many of them were christians so it was frightening when were sick came to power. which i did when the muslim brotherhood took power it was the 1st time i felt afraid and they called us heretics and told us what was permitted and what was forbidden. than was.

because again through my liquid i took my headscarf off with the rise of the muslim brotherhood i didn't want to be like them so i took off the veils of as a. way that. was. i mean those who say it's forbidden for a woman to speak to a man and so on it's not just a matter of principles to them you're a blasphemer and so you must die you cannot object. from time to time she longs for to hear square and reminisces about the egyptian revolution. who is only 24 years old dreamt of living in a new era preserve dignity for gyptian women.

after president morsi took over we had hoped that we would get our rights that we would see real change but the situation has only got worse we thought in 2011 that would be going forward we were going backwards. we've been going backwards. i was. i just told us against. i have more see but with big gatherings come big problems. in the midst of all the protests many women felt assaulted. i was touched and groped by men who met. sexual harassment and sexual violence has been super evident since the victim. virginity tests i mean.

assaults they were taking place all the time but who did anything no one to assist us protecting ourselves. so we decided as a group of friends to form some sort of an intervention team started up as operation anti-sexual harassment them then later on when we realized that we should not sugarcoat the level of the crime we are slashing assault. we walk around just ahead and whenever we see cases of sexual harassment tries to do something about that.

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