in a little bit of a shaky the chinese state has a lot of money at his disposal. and that's how it's expanding concerning its status and position in the world would be fairly typical by morning. china's gateway to europe starts feb 19th on d w. a cut in sweat a little bit in the small village where i grew up but i think it goes it's 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 standing. when i 1st took to the streets i was shocked but happy. at least half of the protesters were women maybe even the money. came to 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 it and. a bar called the army but when all murder vehicles rolled into high ropes they seemed to take no action

against the demonstrators. really with this if you chant that the army and the people were united gave hope to a lot of people no thanks i was. super president hosni mubarak has decided to step down as president for egypt and he has decided back down forces will leave the nation i was. in was there anyone else in them and everyone workers farmers people from all classes and women were part of this. they were welcome it. 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. sometimes students looked at us as if we were crazy they made fun of us and loved. 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.

as unfortunately on international women's day when. women were celebrating on to here's where the least insulting chant shouted at them was get out of here he definition of the don't kind of cloud but diane was. 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. the armed forces celebrated women's day by 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 last one dress completely and split us in the 2 groups she was forced to lie on a table and undergo of russian energy test. she told us that the military calls her a prostitute and says this has just mentioned

a 1000000 women and scare them away from protesting. the age of general admitted that the tests had taken place one general told them that the tests were carried out to help defend the army against potential climbs of right. 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 reevaluated was situation and he by that in there. 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 happenin and some of them started to call me mama. and they listened to what i said we didn't

know the muslim brotherhood was the man of the hind out back when. happening and. it is a demanding an end to military rule and handover of power to civilian government. and the whole 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 in me and that they're staring me to arrive at. that. i. am i can fall in love and then 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 yes you know we were shocked. we used to chant the on millions of people are one hand. the statements are no good now the military council has to go. doctor out i was down there killing the revolutionary us

staying silent it's a crime they have to take to the streets was was. was was in the film at the end i was bringing the food to eat tomorrow then 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 arm you know by one who was cursing at us so i said you should be ashamed of yourself i'm as old as your mother and he goes hysterical and smacks 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 nest. or if i was. sick.

and i was arrested on saturday. night as soon as the army caught 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 had been on the head with batons i needed more than 20 stitches. that's what they went for most 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 200.3.

of the cause why this didn't just happen to me. the regime was assaulting the women to break the role of the people to the yemenis they've done it. before king people have been killed hundreds injured over the last 3 days because he thought plenty of strikingly why they provoke outrage and thanks to the police brutality what happened since egypt from women in the streets was a protest that has been called perhaps the most significant 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 moment jim people would tell me make god punish those who humiliated he was he was

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 of cut off your hand. it was so powerful women marching just saying to muslim at the times wish the daughter of egypt will never be success was 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 and sorry i can't respect it like that to him was this was that was on. to

our. i don't know why didn't they send for my parents to come and get me but 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 his pro regime regardless of what the regime is. i'm over the past when i regained consciousness i was at home and locked in a room being for fun for the muslims they 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. my bubble so long. i did my aunt said i cannot face people in the village. i had no way of communicating with people in mumbai my family took my cell phone cut the internet connection again. and i wanted to speak up and expose the torturers who did this to me but i couldn't either. of them and in and i realized that i was in another prison thing that the prison at home. earth and animals that i decided to escape from the window but my arms were in hard plastic since they were 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 a window. 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. 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. it is that i was summoned by the public prosecutor i was questioned as a suspect i was charged with offenses like assaulting police officers throwing

bricks molotov cocktails torching a science research center inciting riots overthrowing the regime damaging public property and possessing weapons despite the fact that we were the victims. and. it was definitely something you're free to how to count that's competing really compete thank. god 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. 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 image of marriage. sexual harassment the prince fish no women in politics this is one of the most. common morsi has been sworn in as egypt's 1st democratically elected civilian president. and. any information concerned the muslim 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 count. could the president.

mohamed morsi issued a presidential pardon to all those charged during the revolution. his public prosecutor consider the case of the cabinet clashes to be an anti revolutionary case and against the military said was excluded from the pardon decree. my family told me they did not want me to live with them at home anymore. they tried to force me to marry someone i didn't know so i went to cairo. but i was alone. i had only myself to depend on i mean all and that was.

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. it's. the so. that 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 so.

he was. on the cover 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 in the ng and in logic i went to my court hearing how on of the company i mean 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 was screaming so he would come and get me out of that room mr fundi if he was there i was not. there i 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 . it was one of the trying to stay calm that's how i operate they're trying to make things difficult for you. they're out to get me i understand let's not give them any more chances. to. meet me and. that made me more determined to fight against the offices have

tortured me they had to be put on trial. how could anyone and we decided to establish a nation without torture to put pressure on the government. to coffees one with milk. which of. the ideas started with 6 people who are all victims of torture even if we never achieve justice at least we're helping others through the same trauma we experienced. 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 are still civilians being tried before a military quite. people. 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 for bit more. than was. because again for my point 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 talking or square and reminisces about the egyptian revolution. who is only 24 years old dreamt of living in a new era preserve dignity for egyptians women. to 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 saw it in 2011 that

would be going forward we were going backwards. we've been going backwards. i joined protests against have morsi but with big gatherings big problems. in the midst of all the protests many women felt assaulted. i was touched and he groped by many many. sexual harassment and sexual violence has been stripped of the. sense that virginity virginity tests i mean. assault they were taking place all the time but now that anything no one was just us protecting ourselves. so we decided as

a group of friends to form some sort of an intervention team we started off as operation anti-sexual harassment and then later on when we realized that we should not sugarcoat the level of the crime we have slashed assault. we need to walk around just ahead and whenever we see cases of sexual harassment tries to do something about that.

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