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I will show you something. Make it... make it more smaller, photo, smaller, and it come from away, ok?
I like it now. So this is Borj Al Arab prison, no, it is not Borj Al Arab prison only, it is the area of prisons of Borj Al Arab area, Borj Al Arab. Here you know, here is this, area is full camp of Amn Markzi (it means the central security).
There are a {ARABIC TRANSLATION} unit of the central security that assigned to protect the prison. Here is the camps of the soldiers of the central security. This is a mosque for the unit. I don't know this area, as I never went to it. There is a prison here for the soldiers that violate the laws. I never went to it.
Here, the whole area is Borj Al Arab prison. It has 25 halls. These are 25 halls that regular prisoners stay at. here is kitchen and bakery and washing. Here is workshops, storages units for the food {ARABIC ENDS}
...it is for basketball, a playground for basketball and volleyball, and you know 'speedball' yeah, there is machine for speedball and doing [undecipherable] and something like this.
Here, an here is playground for foot-football, and here, here is a hospital, hospital of prison,
and here is adminstration,
you know, half, half this building is administration and half is a place for visits, for people who are, who are, who come to visit the prisoners.
Anyone come to visit prisoners meet them here in this area.
And please, please try to make it more, more small, not bigger like this.
And, you know, I will explain you for first, when you go to visit...
And this, there is another prison, called, Leman. It means {ARABIC TRANSLATION} the tough sentence. People who have, have tough sentence in the prison. There are five halls, and I never been at before.{ARABIC ENDS}
When you, when you come to Borj Al Arab, you, when you come to visit, you enter from...
...you enter the prison...
from here, yeah, no no no, not from here
from here, you enter from here. Even if you not come for visit, even if you came as prisoner. You can, you know, enter with a car for prisoner from here.
Please, please, make it more smaller, I can't... I can't explain now.
Like here, you enter, this is a gate, the prison gate. So you enter from here. When you enter from here,
you know, if you are criminal, you will find a lot of security person with civil clothes will receive you, receipt you, with a lot of swearing, and a lot of laughing, something like this, they will receive you here.
And then you will stay here for a little bit time. They will, someone who they say that he is a doctor, but I don't know maybe he is veterinarian,
and try to check that if you have any, anything wrong, in your body, something like this.
And then you change your clothes, and there is prison clothes here in this...please... in this area, in this area, ok?
And then they took you, this way, this way, this way, and you know they put you in one of these, of these wards.
I will explain you, for you, these wards. There is 25 wards in this prison,
If you are, every 5 wards contains, consists a group of 5 wards, you know.
Here is group A. Group A consists of ward 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Group B, Group B, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
From 11 to 15, this Group C.
And this Group D, from 16 to 20.
And this group .... from 21 to 25. I stayed in this group more than 3 years. In this group, you know.
This, this ward was for political prisoner, all those in Muslim Brotherhood was arrested in this [MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD] they was staying in this ward. And this is... and they was treating them in very good way,
because, you know, Muslim Brotherhood have... have... they, you know, they have a good relation with the government and they,
when the prison.receive a lot of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners we was as political prisoner expect that we will live in paradise for some time, then, 'til they be released.
Ok, so this is block 21, ward number 21, I stayed there in this ward for about one month, since end of may 'til 11th of June 2007.
And they, the security officers decided to move me from this ward to this ward because the Muslim Brotherhood don't want me to stay with them in the same ward.
By the decision of the Muslim Brotherhood, they was, they was controlling everything in prison.
And I stayed in this ward from 11th of June 'til 27th of August, or 28th I am not sure.
And then I moved to this ward, this ward number is 22...please, please... 22. And then I stayed in this ward, about, you know, 'til June 2010.
From August 2007 'til June 2010.
And then I move to this ward, and I stayed the rest of my... of my prison, imprisonment in this ward about 4 months, since June 2010 till I release in November 2010.
Last of all, you know, this place is here... is you know... firemen, you know prisoner firemen stay in here.
And here is kind of prison bank, you when know the people who have money they come, they come and take the money and put (please, please)... they put the here.
If they want to take some of money they put in the prison they come here and take it as coupons. You know not take money because money is forbidden inside.
And here is place for resting for the officers, officers who are staying in for prison, you know they are working in prison you know, so they must, may stay for 3 or 4 days every-every week, so they stay in this place.
Here is cafeteria, they make food with money, we pay money to buy food from here, we make - it's not very good, but it's better than the prison food, you know because we have no other choice.
And the high security ward. This high security ward, this is a place for Makhsos, a place for the people who sentenced to death.
And here is the place for the people who have solitary confinement who, who put in a Taa'dib [MEANS DISAPLINE] . A Taa'dib is a...
- torture? -
No, no, no. When you make something against law of prison, they put you here, maybe for three days, for one week, maybe for two months it depends on what you did.
And I stayed here for 65 days and additionally I stayed for 10 days afterward by the..
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And here is the executing place. They execute the people they sentence to death in this room - by hanging. I know, I didn't see anyone during the whole thing but I met a lot of people who were sentenced death while I was in this place...
...I was in this place, and one of them was not talking, who have a trauma, because he sentenced to death, and he was, actually he was killing a mother and her two child.
He was making... [UNDECIPHERABLE]... and I think he was also making.... [UNDECIPHERABLE]... living, when, before he killed her.
When I see him, he look like is, have a problem in his mind, and I think that he don't have to be executed, I, me myself I can't execute him.
So, if someone have a problem he must be punished, he must put in hospital, something like this. But one day I find them, I was at this time, it was in...
October 2007 and I stayed in this because they punished me by staying for ten days in this place. We would stay in this place for punishment. They were preventing completely from eating only taking have a piece of bread
have piece of bread and small piece of cheese everyday they only eat this every day and a small bottle of water.
I was working there, here, sometimes they put them here, or other place, I have stayed here before. That's all.
When I was in this place, I hear that they take him for execution, I woke up in the morning, I was lying on the floor and I hear the people working, and then I hear they speak about he make a crime, he killed a mother and her daughter and they sentenced him to death.
and [UNDECIPHERABLE] and then they hanged him. It goes like this. I lived here from 6th of november to 2010.