make up your. dog. in this small village where i grew up environment but 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 have seen a lot of corruption if you ask. him and i knew that

one day people would take to the streets and i knew i'd be one of them so. when i 1st took to the streets i was shocked but happy. was in march at least time for the protests were women maybe even the movie. going 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 it and. a bar called the army when all murder vehicles rolled into cairo they seemed to take no action against

the demonstrators. where with this chant that the army and the people were united gave hope to a lot of people no thank. you how many sigma president hosni mubarak has decided to step down as president for egypt and to the side of the forces who will leave the nation was. in there and enough in them and everyone workers farmers and people from all classes and women were part of this. they were welcoming. and of course in that moment when thinking about what was coming. i mean.

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

as of unfortunately an international women's day when we. when we're celebrating on tape here square the least insulting chant shouted at them was get out of here he definition of the don't kind of cloud but i am. was that there was a hand inside my class these men who wrote the prophet out of the koran other say

men who sexually harassed us. in. the armed forces celebrated women's day by performing virginity tests on 17 girls some iraqi brigade and was one of them. they insulted us and beat us she said then shocked us 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 a fresh energy test. she told us that the military calls her a prostitute and says this has just mentioned humiliate 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 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 reevaluated was situation and he by that innate. 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 had them in and some of them started to call me mom. and they listened to what i said we didn't

know the muslim brotherhood was scheming to behind our backs and when. week. after week. to 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. as that match tearing me to rob it . was. i. am a can fall in love and that they were standing on top of the building throwing everything you can possibly imagine that people only cares 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 on one hand. that statements are no good now the military council has to go i ducked out i i i now they're killing the revolutionary us staying silent it's

a crime they have to take to the streets i was shocked. i was and then home ec and i was bringing the food to them 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. one who was cursing at us so i said you should be ashamed of yourself i'm as old as your mother and if he goes hysterical and smacked me in the face or even now i have a problem with a nerve in my only aim in philosophy and. never had it any of what he called for someone to take me to the parliament where they were torturing the people's evil nest that. if i was. sick.

and if i was 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 drag me by the hair over to a group of soldiers. more than 20 soldiers have been on the head with batons i needed more than 20 stitches. that's what they went for most your head. if i was. they continued to beat and broke me. they croaked the private areas of my body 5 of them are placing here and 20 are pointed.

at the finish line this didn't just happen to me. the regime was assaulting the women to break the role of the people in the movie been it. 14 people have been killed hundreds injured over the last 3 days because he thought bloody he's articulate why they provoke outrage and to say to the police brutality what happened so to get some women into 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 gym people would tell me make god punish those who humiliated you was he was

everyone was king the post is 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 choose a cut off your hand. it was so powerful women marching just saying then to muslim of the times which the daughter of egypt will never be 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 rummy and i'm sorry i can't respect it or that to him was

that i was going to. to our. i don't know why they sent 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 this program regardless of what the regime is. i am of the day when i regained consciousness i was at home and locked in a room and be there for before the my flight. 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 of course they were they were threatened they could have lost their jobs that. might double 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 i wanted to speak up and expose the torturers who did this to me but i couldn't other. women and i realized that i was in another prison thinking that the prison at home with. arthur one of them 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 how but i was determined to do it i had to get out i broke the plaster cast which was almost up to my elbow but my hands were still broken i couldn't open the windows. 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 were in. my hands 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 silence has as 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 and 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 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 victims. it was definitely something you're free to have to counter that's competing really competing. but it's having to choose between less than is. 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 vision of women and politics this is one of the and the most. common morsi has been sworn in as egypt's 1st democratically elected civilian president. and. any information concerning the muslim brotherhood backed candidates will take egypt's down a rate of more strikes is a mess and. it's

unclear how much power the new president will have the military count. david self's we. could tell those of the president.

mohammed morsi issued a presidential pardon to all those charged during the revolution. and the public prosecutor considered the case of the cabinet clashes to be an anti revolutionary case and against the military said was excluded from the part in the creek. 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. and i was alone. after i had only myself to depend on them all and that. was the

hour. 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. let's. see. this 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 him about what we do is provide them with moral public own legal support.

the feeling was. that the guy 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. when it was leaking and. in logic i went to my court hearing how to back up if 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 was screaming so he would come and get me out of that room mr fundi

it wasn't that i was happy. it was 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 going to try to stay calm that's how they 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 eat meat and. that made me more determined to fight against the officers had

tortured me they had to be put on trial. and we decided to establish a nation without torture to put pressure on the government. to coffees one with milk. which was that the idea 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 experience. i was 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. to the people imprisoned there was to civilians being tried before a military quite. keep going to what actually is the 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 a bit more. than it was. difficult to give your mind when 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 that 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 joined a cult as i guess i had morsi but i was big gatherings big problems i . in the midst of all the protests many women folk assaulted. i was punched in groped by men who met. sexual harassment and sexual violence has been super evident since the average an 18 virginity tests i mean. rape and mobile assault they were taking place all the time but more than anything no one was just 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 and then later on when we realized that we should not sugarcoat the level of the crime we are slashing assault when. we walk around to the head and whenever we see cases of sexual harassment or tries to do something about that. for. millions for islam in your view you qatar's new

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