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I'm Nazly Hussein, from the activist group 'No to Military Trials'
We've been working with the families of the detainees for about 10 days.
The situation is really bad.
255 people have been detained since January 25.
Many of them are children, 12, 13, 14 years old.
They're held with adults in Central Security detention, in horrible conditions.
They're charged with attempting to kill police officers, burning police vehicles, terrifying civilians,
resisting the security forces, and damaging the Semiramis Hotel--
even though the Hotel itself thanked the revolutionaries for intervening when it was attacked.
Mohamed Fadel, Lawyer
The number of minors detained this time is much higher than ever before.
We've received reports of people who were arrested and we can't reach many of them.
The number of people brought before the public prosecutor is far lower than those arrested.
The kids are being held in six different places.
So the families have to go from one division to the next just trying to get information about their kids.
Some have been held for six days and still haven't been before the public prosecutor.
This is despite the law that says they must go before the prosecutor within 24 hours of arrest.
So the situation is really very bad.
My son's name is Momen Naguib Mohammed Saleh.
He just turned 19 and has been missing since 2:30 last Wednesday afternoon.
I can't find him anywhere. I went to every possible place and he's nowhere to be found:
Al-Gebal al-Ahmar, El-Salam City, I went to all of them. Even Tora.
This is my son. His name is Mohamed Ayez Saad Ahmed Awdallah. From Tora El-Balad.
I've been looking for him for five days and I still don't know where he is.
Help me please, I just want to know where he is.
I'm the father of Mohamed Salah, 17 years old. My son's been missing since 6pm on January 26.
He's nowhere to be found.
I went to every division: Tora, El-Salam City, Nadi Al-Moqaweloon.
I looked everywhere and can't find him. Now where am I supposed to go?
I can't find my son. It's been 4 days. They took him at Qasr el-Nil Bridge. I don't know where to go.
We went around to all the courts and he's not there. Where am I supposed to go?
My son's been missing for 3-4 days. We don't know anything about him.
I just wish they'd tell us where he is. If he was shot or something. So we know what happened.
An astronomical number of people were arrested this time, even compared to Mubarak's era.
Again people are being detained by security and tortured, beaten, and stripped.
People are kept in detention for longer than a day. They don't see the prosecutor, no one investigates.
The last thing I know is that he was arrested in Tahrir Square. That's the last thing I know.
I don't know what to do. I've gone from court to court and can't find him.
None of the police want to help us find him, period.
Help me find out where Mohamed is, that's all. Dead or alive.
If he's dead let us bury him. If he's alive tell us what happened.
Have mercy, tell me where my son is.
I haven't been able to eat or drink or sleep since that day. I need to know if he's okay.
He's my youngest child. I have no idea where he is.
Please, for God's sake, the officials should let me know where my son is.
The injustice, oppression, violence, and torture that we've seen in the last 10 days--
really, words cannot describe it.
Families are going around to the morgues, hospitals, the public prosecution, CSF detention centers.
Just trying to get any information about their children.
Some have been held for six days and haven't been brought before the prosecutor.
12 and 13 year-olds are being held in detention without food or blankets or anything.
Their families don't have any information about them.
Some of the detainees went before the prosecutor and were released.
They say, kill us but don't send us back there.
The people there strip us, spray us with water, throw us--
every human rights treaty, all ideas of humanitarianism, are being violated. It's all illegal.
What's happening in the prisons now is much worse than what happened under Mubarak.
Mohamed el-Guindy was one of the people arrested in the Al-Saiyda Zainab march on January 28.
His family looked for him in the morgues and hospitals. They didn't have any information on him.
They found him at Al-Helal Hospital. He'd been tortured so badly he was in a coma.
He'd been at Al-Gebal Al-Ahmar.
There was an unknown boy in the bed next to him. Abu Omar had been looking for his son for five days.
We told him to go there, because there was an unidentified boy next to him.
He was in a coma and had been shot in the head, even though he had been detained before.
Also, when we went to see Omar and Mohamed we saw bodies of martyrs who hadn't been identified.
Their families still don't know where they are.
The people who were released in recent days tell terrible stories about detention conditions.
The children are kept with the adults, in a places that are not meant to be detention centers.
Everyone says there are no blankets, no beds, they're overcrowded, cold,
they don't give them food, they give them salty water.
All the statements say that some of their companions were tortured and beaten very badly,
and that's why they haven't seen the prosecutor. It's been 5-6 days now.
Most injuries are in the face, head, and eyes, according to their statements.
It's a disastrous situation.
We saw the Interior Ministry's thuggery on TV yesterday arresting that citizen.
That's a citizen just like the rest of us, like those we are looking for now.
They're stripped, beaten, dragged, tortured.
Those that require treatment are taken to the hospital in a coma, between life and death.
It's been six days and there are children, men, and women that we still don't have any information on.
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