el-sisi mohamed salah egypt's star football player grew up in this building before taking his talent off into the wider world his hometown of new greek is far from the capital most people here live in desperate poverty and unlike some most have little chance of escaping it. by so i'm. going to have an salon is one of many young people who could have given up. were small town here and it shows how extraordinary is that he's been able to overcome all of these obstacles has been watching. out of the middle trying to shift the status quo or getting involved in political activism here is a risky business. that's something a lot. knows only too well the activists spent 5 years in prison he was released in march but has to pay tough parole conditions for the next 5 years he has to spend 12 hours every night at a police station. it isn't a moment that i don't think about my parole conditions the situation worries me it's not freedom it's not even half freedom it's something very different. president abdel fatah has been swift to crackdown on critics back in april he voted to implement a cont