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Tahrir square is the symbol of the revolution.
Without the square the people are without authority, without a choice.
The most important revolutionary decisions were taken in Tahrir square.
We're not a simple people. They described us as thugs
These are the people of our country whom we know.
We were raised among them.
CSF entered El Tahrir square wanting to annihilate everybody.
Whether journalists, foreigners, Egyptians, thugs, vendors.
Strange things were happening.
They had taken a decision that everybody in Tahrir must be beaten, must be humiliated
must be arrested, must be imprisoned.
Those were their orders.
Who gave them those orders and in whose interest?
After the revolution we expected respect for our dignity.
That was the demand of the revolution. Freedom.
Nothing. This attack on Tahrir and the control by the army is a theft of the revolution.
The civil revolution made by the people
The army wants to steal the revolution, to make it a military revolution.
Where was the army throughout the past 30 years when we were violated, robbed and lost?
Now that the people have revolted, the field marshal appeared, SCAF appeared
Where are the Egyptian people?
What is the role of the Egyptian people?
They are afraid of the people sitting in Tahrir.
Why are they afraid of them?
Those in Tahrir are the owners of the cause,
the families of the martyrs, the independents who dream of a clean country
different from they had lived through
I was entering Talaat Harb from the metro station near AUC
It was 3 pm. I saw army officers and soldiers negotiating with protesters
between Tahrir Mogama'a and Kasr el Aini street
They were negotiating.
I thought, no problem, there is no beating, they will peacefully dissolve the sit-in.
So I continued walking towards Bab El Louq street
It turned out there were CSF soldiers running after the demonstrators
Those demonstrators included women, men and children.
I thought that after the revolution there would be no more beating, no more CSF,
no more oppression. They attacked me
They beat me so hard I fell on the ground. I dropped my mobile.
They kept beating me without any mercy, without any justice
They were a group of barbarians, merciless
They could have stopped and arrested me without beating. But no.
I felt they were going to leave me dead. I tried to escape and couldn't. I sat on the street
I couldn't walk without limping. I wanted to reach out for my mobile
They continued to beat again. So I left the mobile
Two followed me and an officer told them "bring him"
I was injured all over, my head and ear were bleeding
The pain was so much I was numb
I stayed in their prison truck and thought about Egypt so that I don't feel...
After five minutes they brought a young man
wearing a white t-shirt. He was shouting at them
"you can't do anything.
Your limit is to oppress people, to terrorize people.
But our revolution will triumph.
It was Abdel Rahman Ezz, anchor in channel 25
Shouts: "Who are you? I am a cameraman..."
Shouts: "Some people are fasting. Some are still fasting"
He asked me: what's your name.
I said: Mostafa
I told Abdel Rahman, I was going to die.
He asked: who did this to you?
I said: Essawi's CSF
He replied: OK I shall being you a doctor at once
He started banging at the inside of the truck.
And the five young men with me kept banging as well.
He kept banging and told them: someone here is going to die.
After half an hour they came and opened the truck door
They got me out and took me close to Kentucky.
The truck was parked close to the Egyptian museum
The officer said: stand straight or else I shall take you back. I couldn't stand.
I was dying. The officer said: He is acting. Take him back.
He was an army officer. I couldn't breathe.
We were kept in the truck in the heat of the sun from 3 pm until sunset at 6.
The car was boiling and it was so crowded
We were about 15-20 people.
No air to breathe and people were screaming.
Abdel Rahman Ezz was taking pictures.
He got out his camera and kept taking pictures.
After that, at about 6 pm the car moved towards a military police camp in Abdin
Then they took us to Helmiet el Zeitoun military hospital
At the hospital the doctor made me wait for 15 minutes
My head was bleeding. He told me, go first
attend to your arm, go to the department of orthopedics
Then they took us in an ambulance to another camp
They did not give me any pain killers, or any treatment, nothing.
Only the plaster and the stitches
The clinic was closed so I could not disburse the prescription.
No treatment at all.
We returned to the camp.
They put us in the cell where they keep soldiers doing prison sentences.
We didn't know where from here.
Then they took us to military prison.
When we entered we found Mubarak's pictures
A soldier came and told those who brought us:
You brought them already broken? Left us nothing to break?
They shouted at us to stand up take off our socks
It was an inhumane treatment.
It turned out there's a "reception" for those who come to military prison
They make them remove their belts
and remove their shoes and strip them naked and then beat them
Exactly like the movie "The Innocent".
No respect for one's humanity
No revolutionary ideas whatsoever.
Anybody who is taken there is treated like an animal.
On the third day we were taken to trial.. to the *** prosecution
We did not receive a military trial because of outside pressure,
because many people were demonstrating in solidarity with us on the streets
And more than 100 political activists protested in front of Abdin court
demanding our release.
Then came the lawyers and released us from prison
All that happened to me, the prison, the torture and all those violations
will not silence me.
I shall sue the MOI, the head of CSF
the warden of Kasr El Nil police station, Tarek Zaatar.
It was he who accused us and the protesters of throwing Molotov
and beating the soldiers.
People will definitely take to the streets
because the regime has not fallen yet.
The regime is there, the oppression is there.
That is why people will take to the streets,
when they see this oppression and the police, military police and civilian police
The violations by security forces have increased.
People will take to the streets when they feel this oppression;
they don't feel the change; there is no social justice
60% of the people are still living below poverty line
There is no change. There will be a revolution of the hungry
that will come out of popular and slum areas,
they will come from all governorates of Egypt, because the regime is still the same
Exactly the same