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On Tuesday 22nd November, Central Security Forces detained Saleh on Mohamed Mahmoud St. My name is Saleh Fekry, I'm an Engineering graduate and I work at a German petroleum engineering company, RWE Dea.
And I was in the square on Tuesday.
Around 9 in the evening, my friends and I decided to enter Mohamed Mahmoud street,
To stand with the people there, swap places with them, help them if someone had fallen or anything.
We got onto Mohamed Mahmoud St, and walked till we were on the frontline, facing the Central Security Forces.
And we stood with them for a while, tried to help them a bit, and they started pushing us heavily, and we weren't able to return to Mohamed Mahmoud St.
So we had to enter a side street.
The one leading up to the Ministry of Interior.
As we were running down the road, towards one end there was barbed wire on the ground, so my clothes, and the kuffiyeh I was wearing, got caught in it.
So I lagged behind a little.
And then, as I was trying to run - I'd lost my glasses a few days earlier, so I couldn't see very well -
I was surrounded by military officers,
So I paused, I didn't know what to do, and that's when the Central Security Forces grabbed me.
The first soldier that grabbed hold of me beat me with his baton on the back of my head.
And then he hit me on my leg, so I fell to the ground.
Two of his colleagues continued to beat me up.
I kept walking until they stopped me at a place where they were holding a number of others like me, around seven.
Then they took all of us and put us in a wooden room in front of the Ministry of Interior - it was around 7x2 metres.
I felt like I was bleeding heavily, like I was drained and about to pass out.
Nearly all the people in there had been beaten up, and some of them electrocuted... I believe someone had been electrocuted.
As I was being searched, the guy checked my ID and saw that I'm an engineer. He asked me, you're an engineer, so what brought you here.
There's definitely a bit of racism in the treatment.
Because as soon as the officer in the encampment realized I was an engineer at a German company, his treatment differed.
I guess he figured I could be an engineer or a journalist or something, so...
So he stopped talking to me the way he was talking to others.
So there's racism... the judgement or sentence depends on your social status, or your education, or job, there's nothing neutral about the treatment.
The call for the Fajr (daybreak) prayer was around 5 am.
I slept for a while, and they woke us at around 7 or so.
They called out a few people's names,
And they loaded us into a transfer vehicle.
They drove for a while and then they dropped us off on the highway.
From what I could gather from my exchange with these two soldiers is, clearly the revolution has not impacted the regime at all.
All the changes and reforms they've made are doubtful.
People are still being beaten and humiliated. We're still being called thugs.
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