and there are many alternatives. to. make up your own mind. to. make for minds. more. cardio and sweat a little bit you know in the small village where i grew up in the bay 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 standing. when i 1st took to the streets i was shocked but happy. i was in march at least half of the protesters were women maybe even the movie. 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 the dead. mubarak called the army when all murder vehicles rolled into cairo they seemed to take no action against

the demonstrators. the way with this is chant that the army and the people who are united gave hope to a lot of people no thanks i. was. president hosni mubarak has decided to step down as president for egypt and he has decided that forces will leave the nation was. seen was in kenya not in them and that everyone workers farmers people from all classes and women were part of that. they were welcoming. and of course in that moment thinking about what was coming here to italy gabe i mean.

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 loved. 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 on international women's day when women were so. abridging on take your square the least insulting chant shouted at them was get out of here he definition of the don't kind of club operand was. there was

a hand inside my blouse these metal gook wrote the prophet on 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 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 of russian 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 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 have them in i'm some of them started to call me mom. to listen to what i said we didn't know

the muslim brotherhood was scheming a behind our back as a liquid. athlete . is it demanding an end to military rule and a handover of power to civilian government. any hope egypt's military would hand

over power ahead of its own schedule or 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 terrenate iraq they . have. i. am a can for meghan 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 to file an email we were shocked after we used to chant the army and the people are one hand. statements are no good now the military council has to go i ducked out i now they're killing the revolutionary us

staying silent it's a crime they have to take to the streets i was shot i was in the head at home at the end i was bringing them food to eat tomorrow 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 arm you know by one who is cursing at us so i said you should be ashamed of yourself i'm as old as your mother he goes hysterical and smacked me in the face even now i have a problem with a nerve in my only. philosophy and i. never had any of what he called for someone to take me to the parliament where they were torturing he has evil nest that. the if i was. 16.

and i was arrested on saturday. night as soon as the army caught me they stripped me of my veil. the 1st thing they do is strip a girl of her veil they drag me by the head 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 my 1st your head. if i was. they continued to beat and broke me. they croaked the private areas of my body 5 of them are passing here and 20 are pointed.

out because this didn't just happen to me. the regime was assaulting the women to break them the role of the people would be on the disadvantaged. 14 people have been killed hundreds injured over the last 3 days because he thought he was trying to leave what i think provoke outrage and to say to the boys for calibra 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 how was the way everyone took to the streets because of what happened during the cabinet clashes i took part in the mob some people would tell me may god punish those who humiliated you was 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 apparently the trees are cut off your hands. it was so powerful women marching just saying to muslim with the tide which the daughter of egypt will never be was was in the they 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 to meet you that was no longer a rummy and sorry i can't respect it like that to him was this was on.

now i had to deal with my family and the battle at home and. i see my entire family sides with the military and this program regardless of what the regime in. iraq in the past when i regained consciousness i was at home and locked in a room to be there for fun for them of why didn't they have. chile where my uncle my brother and my grandfather were really angry they said you disgraced us

you brought us shame. my whole family was afraid of course they were they were threatened they could have lost their jobs something that. i think 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. come in and i realized that i was in another prison thing that the prison at home. arsenal 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 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 make. them come on but they kept me locked up in the house for $55.00 days i counted every minute every 2nd of each day that 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.

a little bit 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 signs they read them and said i had lost my mind then 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. that is 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 have to counter that's competing really compete thank. you. 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 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 image of marriage. sexual harassment the prince vision of women in politics this is what i feel is the most. common r.c. has been sworn in as egypt's 1st democratically elected civilian president. on. anything for a main concern for the muslim brotherhood backed candidates will take egypt's down the rate of more strikes is a mess and. it's

unclear how much power the new president will have the military council. self's we . could see the.

mohamed morsi issued a presidential pardon to all those charged during the revolution. in the public prosecutor consider 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. that i had only myself to depend on i mean all of this. was.

i found an apartment. that only 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. see. it. to be 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 what we do is provide them with moral public own legal support.

was. cut and that was one of the there are $269.00 defendants in the cabinet clashes case they were individual charges and their group charges what everyone's moved on and we're left to take the blame. and healing and. i went to my court hearing how on the topic 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 if he was there was my family. if they 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. but 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. gonna try 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 eat meat and. that made me more determined to fight against the offices have 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 mel. 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 experience. which i was i.

thank you for standing up for me don't mention it it's the least we can do. after more sick a man took power there was a serious of violations against freedom of expression. there are still people in prison there was to civilians being tried before a military quite. people. what actually is them 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 was. ok to give you my love 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 as it was

a. that. was i mean those who say it's forbidden for a woman to speak to a man and said well it's not just a matter of principles to them you're a blasphemer and so you must die you cannot in the jet. 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 egyptians 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

we'd be going forward we were going backwards. we've been going backwards. i think. i just contest against morsi but big gatherings come in problems i. in the midst of all the protests many women felt assaulted. i was punched and groped by many men. sexual harassment and sexual violence has been pretty evident since the victim 18 virginity tests i mean. rape and assault they were taking place all the time who did anything no one it 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 them then later on when we realized that we should not sugarcoat the level of the crime we are the salt. we walk around in the heat and whenever we see cases of sexual harassment or tries to do something about it.

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