Hanan

Hanan

Hanan (a transgender male to female) was arrested in September 2017 from a restaurant in Cairo and charged with Inciting immorality and debauchery. The Egyptian security forces caught her on social media, she said “I was talking to a man on Facebook and he asked to see me. We met in a restaurant before three days of Mashrou’ Leila concert in Cairo. I had a ticket to the party in my backpack. When I arrived, I found four men in civilian clothes waiting for me. I knew I was being arrested.” – She was sentenced to a month in prison. Violations she was subjected to: She was locked in a “cage under a staircase [in the Public Prosecution Office], it was not even a prison cell, [but] just a small room measuring 2×3 meters, in which 25 gay and trans people”. She was transferred three days later to a cell with men. She was subjected to physical violence. “They slapped and kicked me with their shoes and dragged me from my clothes until they tore them. I was crying and couldn’t speak. The security men were slapping me and stabbing me with their pens to force me to speak.” In addition, she was forced to take off her clothes in front of the security men at the police station, who examined her body. She was also harassed and sexually assaulted when she was transferred to a men’s cell. They asked her private questions, such as: “Do you shave?” “How did you get the breasts?” “Why do you have long hair?” and threatened to force her to undergo a forced anal examination. Police searched her phone, logged into Grindr via her Facebook account, created a fake conversation to upload pictures of her as a woman and refused to allow her to call anyone or hire a lawyer.