Asmaa Hamdy Abd El-Sattar El-Sayed

Security forces arrested Asmaa Hamdy 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 when she was arrested – 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 developed skin sensitivities as a result of the lack of cleanliness of the prison, the spread of insects in it, and the lack of medical care; she also suffered from nasal sinus allergies, as the prison hospital was not equipped, and the medicine her family brought her did not help, as the diagnosis was made by her mother, not a doctor – 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 then 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 the 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. – She was transferred to al-Abadiya prison in Damanhour, without her supplies and clothes, and was imprisoned in the criminal ward, which was full of insects, cockroaches and rats – the department of the Faculty of Dentistry refused to allow her to take her exams inside the prison, despite the approval of the prison administration, which led to the loss of the school year.