Alaa El-Sayed Mahmoud Abd El-Rahman

Alaa El-Sayed Mahmoud Abd El-Rahman

Security forces arrested Alaa El-Sayed and others after demonstrations at Al-Azhar University for girls in Nasr City on December 24, 2013. They took them to Second Nasr City section. They were presented before the prosecution and interrogated under case No. 7332 of 2013, Second Nasr City Misdemeanors. They were imprisoned pending investigations. her detention was continually renewed until she was sentenced on 24 February 2014 to 5 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 pounds. The sentence was upheld on 23 November 2014. She remained a prisoner between Al-Qanater prison and Damanhour prison until she was acquitted on December 28, 2016. – Violations: – she was beaten inside the Second Nasr City section – she was searched completely naked – she was transferred to the First Nasr City Police Station, where she spent 18 days and was subjected to violations, including a pregnancy test – in Second Nasr City Section, she was imprisoned with criminals who were stealing her things; she slept on the ground, and the prison administration opened water on the floor, forcing her to wake up at night so the floor could be cleared – she got sick and developed a dermatological condition as a result of the lack of healthcare and sanitation in the prison and cells, despite the crowding of prisoners in it; the spread of insects in it, and the lack of medical care; she also suffered from bruises and pains on her back and feet. When she went to the prison doctor, he told her she didn’t have anything wrong with her and he did not give her medicine. Therefore, most of the medicine came from her family in the few cases they were able to get it in – in June 2015, several prison inmates, criminal defendants and members of the security of Al-Qanater prison attacked the group of Asma Hamdi. A jailer called for a woman who assaulted a female student, which led to the students engaging in verbal clashes with her. The criminals intervened and beat them in front of the prison warden for 4 hours; they were assaulted by security officers and jailers with sticks in addition to verbal insults. The next day one of the officers assaulted student Hanadi with a box on her side, resulting in severe bruises on the ribs. As a result, she experienced uterine bleeding, nervousness and fainting from beatings on the head and sporadic bruises throughout the body. – In al-Abadiya prison in Damanhour, there was a State Security officer who tortured them psychologically them by beating another prisoner in front of them and threatening to do the same to them.