شهادة ناشطة عن اعتقالها وتعذيبها على يد الجيش المصري

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شهادة ناشطة مصرية عن اعتقالها وتعذيبها على يد ميليشيات طنطاوي في أحداِث مجلس الوزراء
An Egyptian activist recounts arrest, torture and sexual assault by the Tantawi's Militia

It was Saturday, when they cleared the sit-in,

Around 1.30 or 2 pm, I can't remember the exact time,

I was sitting in the garden at the Mogam'a on the Qasr el Ainy side,

They started to attack, so we began running,

We ran up to Qasr el Nil bridge, and then they closed in on us,

A group of us ran onto Qasr el Nil bridge, I was with the group that ran onto 6th October bridge,

I figured that was safer, at least we'd be able to find a taxi or anything, and manage to escape,

They got onto the bridge from an exit different than the one we used,

They chased us, and the cars were encircling us as well,

I was trailing behind, I can hardly run anyway because of asthma,

So I wasn't able to keep up, and one of the soldiers tripped me, and I fell on my face, while the rest ran,

There were three of them. One twisted my arm behind my back,

Another was pulling my hair, and the third one hitting me on my knee and shin,

There was of course swearing, against my father and mother,

And really provocative insults.

Then one of them pulled me up by the hair,

And handed me over to his commanding officer, saying 'We took her.'

Then there were about twenty soldiers on the bridge,

Walking past these twenty soldiers, not a single one did not harass me,

Whether verbally or physically.

Then the soldier asked me questions like, 'Are you a girl or not?' and that sort of thing,

We reached his officer and he told the soldier, "No one touch her, set her down here, I said no one should touch her,"

"No one touch her," was practically a cue for the beating,

The beating increased, and then we were off the bridge,

He forced me run all the way to Abdel Moneim Riyad square, knowing that I couldn't run,

We reached General Magdy,

I knew him because I'd spoken to whom only a day before, because my friends were detained,

Sanaa Seif, Nour Ayman, Farida al Huessi, and Maggie Osama,

And I had been talking to him to try and get them released.

Because he'd seen me a day before, he asked them 'Why did you bring her?'

So the soldier answered him saying, "Boss, she's a daughter of so-and-so" - swearing at my mother, basically.

He told me, stand there and don't run. I told him I wouldn't. He asked if I had ID, I said no.

I refused to hand him my ID because I didn't know what he'd do with it, to be honest.

Had I been charged with something I would've shown my ID, but I didn't know where I was or what for, or anything.

I was standing there in Abdel Moneim Riyad, with no less than ten soldiers, probably more.

After that officer left me,

The harrassment ensued, something terrible - all I could hope was that they wouldn't get into my pants.

But they did, anyway.

They beat me on my legs with the batons, and on my hands,

And they kept pulling my hair, it was being torn out in their hands,

Until General Magdy came and told me, "If I unleash them on you they will destroy you, do you understand?"

I told him, "Yes, I understand," and he said "I'll get you a taxi, and I never want to see you again,"

And he grabbed me by the hair and knocked my head against the cab, but not too hard,

And I got out of the taxi - the driver had been watching what was happening,

And then continued swearing at me,

Insults like, "You're a tramp, if your parents cared they wouldn't let you spend the night in the street," and so on.

I got out some distance away from my home - I didn't know if the driver worked for them or not.

That's why I got out before I reached home, I walked a bit till I got there.

I saw a doctor, he just said I was bruised all over my legs and on my knees,

And in my hands, and it hurts to kneel.

Were you scared off by what happened to you? Do you feel like that will stop you from being in the street again?

No, I mean, the same day I was in the square,

I rested a bit the day after because I just couldn't,

But I'm back out here today again!

Okay, and do you think they have been deliberately targeting girls?

Yes, that was definitely the case. There was even one guy who was running with me, I didn't even know him,

They hit him on his hands and told him "Leave her!",

I saw it happen more than once myself, with other friends, that they'd leave the boys and run after the girls.

Do you have something to say to the military council?

Yes, they're clearly trying to exploit a sensitive social point, because we're an Eastern society, so they're using girls as weapons,

What a wretched, base, move. Honestly.

I mean using violence against a woman... I really don't know what to even call that.

Such an extremely filthy act, seriously.

And so here's our response, I think we're around 10,000 or so girls, we're down here in response to that.

Enough. That's more than enough, seriously, enough.