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The ***...
Bring back our brothers out of the cells!
Freedom for all prisoners!
He was arrested yesterday, in Mohammed Mahmoud St.
Since then I've been searching all the police stations and courts
Everywhere I check they tell me he's not there
I plead with them, give me any information, I just want to see that he's OK
They just say "We don't know, woman, just get lost."
"What are you doing here anyway? Move"
I said "Please let me talk to him!"
"I want to give him some food,"
"at least tell me where he is!"
He called his father yesterday -
I'd tried to hide it from his father, who's sick -
saying:
"They took me yesterday"
"They're beating me to death"
"I can't even stand up, Dad."
"Send someone, anyone, I don't know where I am"
"Just do something, get me out of here!"
379 have been arrested so far
and more are still being arrested even as we speak
The charges are things like 'thuggery' and attacking security forces.
There are many injuries
in the security forces' lines
among those they're calling public employees
But I think I can say
that it's clear which side is suffering most injuries and deaths
from birdshot and live ammunition.
My name's Mohammes Katib and I'm 15.
I'm at the German School in Doqqi.
We were on the way to a friend's in Garden City.
We heard there were disturbances in Tahrir
and when we looked down Qasr al-Eini St
the police shot three tear gas bombs in a row
and suddenly Central Security were running at us.
We got tripped up amongst the people running away,
and one of my friends collapsed from the gas
and someone took him away
and I got taken by the riot police
They dragged me along the ground
and beat me all over with batons, helmets, fireworks...
and took everything from my pockets, phone, wallet and everything,
that was all while they were beating us up.
At some point then I passed out
Then they put us in a police van
and took our names and details
and took us to Gabal al Ahmar
then to Salam Barracks where we were kept for a day.
The next morning they took us to the Office of Public Prosecutions
along with two lawyers, who interrogated me.
Then they took us back to Salam and made us sleep there until dawn
when we went back to the police station.
A noticeable feature of these arrests
and of previous arrests too
is that around 40% of those arrested were children, with their school bags
Currently 320 demonstrators have been released and 56 remain in detention.
I came out in the midst of all this fighting
because Gaber died.
Why did he have to die?
Because he threw a stone he should die?
If I throw a stone, is your response really to shoot?
I got taken in the bit by Simon [Bolivar Square].
There was an officer, we argued, he insulted me. So I insulted him back.
Then he got me and beat me, beat me proper.
Dragged me, beat me with the butt of his gun.
They beat you, drag you, and you're told to get up;
you're so badly beaten you can't, but you manage to, and you run away.
All that happened between the bank and the People's Assembly building.
I went into the streets by the People's Assembly, looking like this
I was begging people, saying "Guys, my eyes are screwed."
"I make my livelihood from my eyes."
"Can someone please help, somehow?"
The people in the square are not thugs
they are victims of injustice
who went out to reclaim the rights of their brothers and sisters who were killed.
People like me. I wanted to express my objection:
Many died in Mohammed Mahmoud
yet the killers walked free and went back to work.
It's like we don't even have the right to object.
They think that when they beat us, we won't go to Tahrir again.
On the contrary, it's a motivation for us to go again
so as to reclaim our rights.
It becomes a blood feud then.
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