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- In this note, I copied @MagButter's account of his arrest as per his series of tweets:
- In the coming tweets I'll tell u a brief of how I was detained and beaten up.
- I was w/ @monaeltahawy at Mohamed Mahmoud street, while the police is heavily shooting, a couple of persons in civilian clothes surrounded us, they pushed us aside 2 a nearby alley (bon appetite) claiming it's a better refuge, while they pushed us, 1 of them groped @monaeltahawy, she slapped him & tried to beat him, while the other defended him, I tried to pull Mona's arm & run from the shooting but they didn’t let her ago & I heard her shouting "my phone, u animal," and in less than 10 seconds, CSF surrounded us & pulled us apart I didn't see @monaeltahawy since then.
- 5 soldiers surrounded me, beat me with batons all over my body w/ extra dose for my head, and dragged me along M. Mahmoud street, 2 beating me with batons, 1 kicking me, 1 fingering my ass, 1 checking my pockets, till the end of the street, also kicking my balls.
- Then they handed me 2 a police officer, who also gave me a couple of punches.
- He dragged me along while I'm screaming, bleeding like a fountain of blood. He asked me "where r u from", I answered "Alex"...He "no, u r not Egyptian, u r a spy" Me "u can see my ID"...He "I don’t see IDs u cant speak Arabic well" Me "my mouth/lips r severely beaten, I cant speak at all not only AR then he handed me to 2 solders, also kicked me in the chest.
- I saw many army offices, & cried for their help but they seemed happy w/ my blood. 1 man in civilian clothes came out of a crowd & stopped us, asked "what's going on here?"...”They beat me up." He asked "where r u from?" Me...”Alex"...
- He...”Take him"...Then they sent me to a kiosk where they put another 28 detainees among them a Dr, they got me an ambulance & put a bandage for my bleeding head. And they put us in a car, and we were sent to Torrah Cen. Police Camp. We were there past 2am, they collected everything we have & told us we will be released at 10am.
- I asked for medical help but, no answer, at 8am, we were sent in the same car back to M. Mahmoud Street. & set us free. But they didn't give us the stuff they took at the prison while we r walking from the car to the protesters on the other side of the street, army soldiers greeted us calling us "heroes”!!
- And I met the same man in civilian clothes whom I saw the night b4. I asked "why u didn't help me?" "I don't recognize u" he smiled. I told him what happened, he apologized & hugged me. I asked about my phone as I need to call my family, He "I don't know who took it".
- Me "How come u don’t, I can recognize last night officer who was responsible for what happened" He "I don't know who were the soldiers".
- Me "How come you don’t know your soldiers?" He "Come back later I'll find u your phone" Me "I wont come later, I need to contact my family now"
- He gave me his phone & offered 2 dial my family but I insisted on having mine. Then I asked "who r u?" He "I'm major general Maher”
- Me "police or army?", "police" Me "How can I reach u?" He "Here is my phone number ****, now u need to go" with a big smile on his face.
- I left, we didn't get our stuff back, they threw them among protester to claim that the protesters stole them and disappeared.
- I went to the field hospital; I got 5 stitches in my forehead, 3 beside my eye, and lots of bruises all over my body & endless chest pain.
- Worst thing, they beat me b4 they accuse me of anything. No interrogation, no accusations, nothing! The only question was "where r u from?"
- I can't go to #tahrir or #Smouha in the coming weeks, I beg everyone who's reading this to head there instead of me because u might be next.
- U r free to copy, compile, republish, blog, or print my tweets regarding what happened to me last week.
- And this was the end of his testimony. Please share to show everyone how brutal and inhumane this is!
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