Samira Ibrahim
This is the
upper-Egypt girl, coming from Sohag, who has participated in the revolution since
day 1. During the violent military attack on March 9th, Samira,
together with 16 girls, were subjected to an illegal “Virginity Test” forced
into them by army soldiers after being tortured and beaten up!
Samira is
not shutting up, and she is raising charges against the army, even if it takes
her life to get her right!
Ghada Kamal
A pharmaceutical
from Mansoura, member of April 6th movement, and member of
Supporting Al Baradie group.
She was
attacked by the army soldiers on December 16th morning, her veil was
taken off, and the letter “T” was carved into her skull.
She gave
her full testimony about her horrible experience of being detained by any army sergeant
who kept threatening of sexually abusing her!
It’s worth
mentioning here that there was some confusion regarding Ghada being the girl
who was stripped off. But that is not the case, yes, there are so many cases
not just one!
Farida Elhessy
A medical
graduate who works as a photographer and who went to Kasr El Einy street
Friday, December 16th morning to reply to a call for doctors to help
casualties.
Farida was
beaten up by the army, kicked on the back, and pulled from her hair.
According to Mona Seif, this woman was not part of the
protest, but she joined just to save a girl from being beaten up by the army,
only to be beaten up herself and slapped till she apologized!
Tahrir Lady:
She is the
woman every piece of **** thought he could talk about her.
She is the
woman who was wearing face-veil “Nekab” when she was dragged on the street,
kicked on the chest, pulled from the head, and finally stripped off till her
underwear was revealed to suddenly realize she was a woman, then they left her
for the other protestors to help her.
Right now,
according to her friend on Twitter, she is suffering several bone fractures,
skull fracture, bruises all over her body, and of course, she suffers
psychologically and emotionally not only from the army violence but from how
easy it was for everyone to varnish her reputation and question her morals and
honor.
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As an Egyptian woman, I cannot help but
being so proud of these women.
Not just
cause they faced all this horrible violence fearlessly, but because they
amazingly made everyone look into one of our major societal problems, that I
personally believe the core of so many disturbances we suffer here.
Violence
against women!
In a
society that thinks violence against women OK, army soldiers cannot be
different. To them, violence is a language , a method of communication, and a
tool by which they enforce and assure power.
I can beat
you up, hence I can control you!
Men to
women, fathers to daughters, police officers to citizens, and finally army
soldiers to protestors.
Some think
that focusing on what happened to women is a narrow-minded look into the
events, cause all Egyptians have been subjected to all sorts of violence and
abuse from authorities, not only this year, but for decades.
I say yes,
that is – unfortunately – true. But it is when you highlight the fact that
women – perceived as the weaker gender – and children for that matter, should
not be under violence from someone who is stronger, that the whole concept of
violence will be looked at differently.
I remember
my fiancé when we were discussing kids playing sports like Karate and Taekwondo,
he told me that it is when you know you can actually kill someone that you
learn how to control it, and not to brag about it.
You already
know you can do it, you have nothing to prove!
Hence it
starts to become shameful to attack someone who is weaker than you. It would
not be a fair game.
I think we
need to dig deeper into this culture of “what
is power” in order to finally reach a
day when no one beats up another human just because he can!
