Mona Eltahawy Raped and Abused by Egyptian CSF
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The past 12 hrs were painful and surreal but I know I got off much much easier than so many other Egyptians.
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On sexual assault and said would investigate it and said they had no idea why I was there. Then who does??! WTF!
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Another hour later I was free with apology from military intelligence for what CSF did. Took pics of my bruises and recorded statement 1/2
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Instead, blindfolded me for 2 hrs, after keeping me waiting for 3. At 1st answered Qs bec passport wasn't w me but then refused as civilian
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Didn't want to go with military intelligence but one MP said either come politely or not. Those guys didn't beat or assault me.
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.@Sarahngb is coming to kindly take me to the hospital. Besides beating me, the dogs of CSF subjected me to the worst sexual assault ever
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Yes sexual assault. I'm so used to saying harassment but those fuckings assaulted me. #CSF
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5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.
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Thank God a political activist in MOI with me lent me his phone to tweet. Right after my tweet his battery died
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I can barely imagine what my family and loved ones were going through those 12 hours-I know they were worried about me to begin with. Sorry
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12 hours with Interior Ministry bastards and military intelligence combined. Can barely type - must go xray arms after CSF pigs beat me.
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Pitch black, only flashing ambulance lights and air thick with gas Mohamed Mahmoud #Tahrir
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Across street from AUC gate I used to enter every day Mohamed Mansour.Can't believe it. A cacophony sirens, horns, flashing ambulance lights
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The #Tahrir motorbike heroee waiting for injured to come out of Mohamed Mahmojd twitpic.com/7ik740
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Me and @MagButter in Bab el Louk. No street lights, ground covered in rocks from Tuesday's battle w security that he took part in. #Tahrir
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Asked 42yr old woman #Tahrir why she's there: I had to protest the massacre of our youth.
Biography:
Mona Eltahawy (منى الطحاوي) is an award-winning columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is based in New York.
She is a columnist for Canada's Toronto Star, Israel's The Jerusalem Report and Denmark's Politiken. Her opinion pieces have been published frequently in The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and she has appeared as a guest analyst in several media outlets.
Before she moved to the U.S. in 2000, Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a Reuters correspondent and she reported for various media from Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and China. Ms Eltahawy was the first Egyptian journalist to live and to work for a western news agency in Israel.
Her public speaking has taken her around the world, including to the first TEDWomen where she spoke about the virtues of confusion in breaking stereotypes of Muslim women.
In 2010 the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded her its Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver gave her its Anvil of Freedom Award.
In 2009, the European Union awarded her its Samir Kassir Prize for Freedom of the Press for her opinion writing and Search for Common Ground named her a winner of its Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism.
Ms. Eltahawy is a lecturer and researcher on the growing importance of social media in the Arab world. She has taught as an adjunct at the New School in New York, the University of Oklahoma and the U.N.-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica.
Mona was born on Aug. 1, 1967 in Port Said, Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel. She calls herself a proud liberal Muslim. In 2005, she was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim Advancement and she is a member of the Communications Advisory Group for Musawah, the global movement for justice and equality in the Muslim family.
Mona Eltahawy (منى الطحاوي) is an award-winning columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is based in New York.
She is a columnist for Canada's Toronto Star, Israel's The Jerusalem Report and Denmark's Politiken. Her opinion pieces have been published frequently in The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and she has appeared as a guest analyst in several media outlets.
Before she moved to the U.S. in 2000, Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a Reuters correspondent and she reported for various media from Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia and China. Ms Eltahawy was the first Egyptian journalist to live and to work for a western news agency in Israel.
Her public speaking has taken her around the world, including to the first TEDWomen where she spoke about the virtues of confusion in breaking stereotypes of Muslim women.
In 2010 the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded her its Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver gave her its Anvil of Freedom Award.
In 2009, the European Union awarded her its Samir Kassir Prize for Freedom of the Press for her opinion writing and Search for Common Ground named her a winner of its Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism.
Ms. Eltahawy is a lecturer and researcher on the growing importance of social media in the Arab world. She has taught as an adjunct at the New School in New York, the University of Oklahoma and the U.N.-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica.
Mona was born on Aug. 1, 1967 in Port Said, Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel. She calls herself a proud liberal Muslim. In 2005, she was named a Muslim Leader of Tomorrow by the American Society for Muslim Advancement and she is a member of the Communications Advisory Group for Musawah, the global movement for justice and equality in the Muslim family.
Mona Eltahawy is a journalist for both Western and Arab publications who has worked from Egpyt, Israel, and the United States, and currently lives in New York. She was the first Egyptian journalist to live in Israel and work for a Western publication. In 2006 she was awarded the Cutting Edge Prize by the Next Century Foundation for her contributions to press coverage in the Middle East. In 2009, the European Union awarded her the Samir Kassir Prize for Freedom of the Press for her writing. Search for Common Ground named her a winner of its Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle Eastern Journalism. In 2010 the Anna Lindh Foundation awarded her its Special Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver gave her its Anvil of Freedom Award.
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning New York-based journalist and commentator and an international lecturer on Arab and Muslim issues.
Her opinion pieces have appeared frequently in the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper and she has also published opeds in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Egypt's al-Dostour and Lebanon's Daily Star. She recently became a columnist for the major Danish daily Politiken and the online commentary site www.saudidebate.com.
Over the past year, she has lectured and taken part in conferences across the United States as well as in Canada, Denmark, Dubai, Egypt, Greece, Ireland, Morocco, he Netherlands and Qatar. In November, she was named Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo, her alma mater.
Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a correspondent for Reuters and she reported from the region for The Guardian and U.S. News and World Report.
Since she moved to the U.S. in 2000, Ms Eltahawy's views on Arab and Muslim issues have become sought after by producers and college campuses alike. She has been a guest analyst on ABC Nightline, PBS Frontline, BBC TV and Radio, The Doha Debates, CNN, Al-Arabiya, Al-Hurra, MSNBC, VOA, Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor and various NPR shows.
She was born in Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel and is currently based in New York. She is a board member of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America.
In 2006, the Next Century Foundation awarded Ms Eltahawy its Cutting Edge Prize for distinguished contribution to the coverage of the Middle East and in recognition of her “continuing efforts to sustain standards of journalism that would help reduce levels of misunderstanding”. In 2003, she came in 2nd place for commentary in the Public Radio News Directors Inc. Awards.
In November 2006, Mona was named Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo, her alma mater. In the 2007 Fall/Winter semester, she begins a partnership with AUC's John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement and the Center for Electronic Journalism that will allow her to give public lectures and train Egyptian journalists in civic journalism.
Her opinion pieces have appeared frequently in the International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat newspaper and she has also published opeds in The New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Egypt's al-Dostour and Lebanon's Daily Star. She recently became a columnist for the major Danish daily Politiken and the online commentary site www.saudidebate.com.
Over the past year, she has lectured and taken part in conferences across the United States as well as in Canada, Denmark, Dubai, Egypt, Greece, Ireland, Morocco, he Netherlands and Qatar. In November, she was named Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo, her alma mater.
Ms Eltahawy was a news reporter in the Middle East for many years, including in Cairo and Jerusalem as a correspondent for Reuters and she reported from the region for The Guardian and U.S. News and World Report.
Since she moved to the U.S. in 2000, Ms Eltahawy's views on Arab and Muslim issues have become sought after by producers and college campuses alike. She has been a guest analyst on ABC Nightline, PBS Frontline, BBC TV and Radio, The Doha Debates, CNN, Al-Arabiya, Al-Hurra, MSNBC, VOA, Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor and various NPR shows.
She was born in Egypt and has lived in the U.K, Saudi Arabia and Israel and is currently based in New York. She is a board member of the Progressive Muslim Union of North America.
In 2006, the Next Century Foundation awarded Ms Eltahawy its Cutting Edge Prize for distinguished contribution to the coverage of the Middle East and in recognition of her “continuing efforts to sustain standards of journalism that would help reduce levels of misunderstanding”. In 2003, she came in 2nd place for commentary in the Public Radio News Directors Inc. Awards.
In November 2006, Mona was named Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo, her alma mater. In the 2007 Fall/Winter semester, she begins a partnership with AUC's John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement and the Center for Electronic Journalism that will allow her to give public lectures and train Egyptian journalists in civic journalism.
Mona Eltahawy Recounts the Real Story of Egypt Revolution
“When Mona Eltahawy sneaked into the street where the fierce scuffles broke out between the pro-democracy protesters and the police forces little did she know that she was taking a leap into the real story of the battle of Egypt revolution.”
“She is an award-winning columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and she is now based in New York.” … With those words Mona Eltahawy introduces herself to the reader of her elegant website. But though she went on and briefed the readers, in the bio block, on her professional history and some of the important highlights in her career, nothing really expressed who she really is like the notice line at the header of her blog that says “Mona Eltahawy, an Egyptian from the inside and outside”
For me Mona Eltahawy is more than just a renowned reporter, or a public speaker, she is an Egyptian, who despite growing up in one of Egypt’s most repressive eras where political dictatorship and religious obscurantism have stifled modernity and freedom of expression, emerged as one of the prominent examples of the progressive, outspoken and liberal woman in Egypt’s contemporary history.
She is a feminist, and though she has been living in the United States since the year 2000, she never severed her emotional bonds with the land of her birth. In almost all of her lectures, articles and media interviews she always shed the light on the wind of change sweeping the Arab world and how this would impact the freedoms and human rights especially for the Egyptian woman.
With Egyptians pouring in thousands again into Tahrir square to protest against all of the hidden forces that are trying to co-opt and hijack the Egyptian revolution Mona Eltahawy simply couldn’t see herself any place else.
Appearing Thursday night on Egyptian satellite channel- ON TV- Mona Eltahawy with both her arms in plaster cast told the most appalling story of her abduction by the security forces near Tahrir square the day before.
As the mainstream media was covering the violent clashes between the Tahrir protesters and the Egyptian police forces that have been raging since Saturday the reporter inside Mona decided to get a closer look.
Ambushed, molested and arrested
Mona Eltahawy in the hospital treated for her broken arms after she got beaten and molested by the police soldiers.
Under the thick fog of tear gas and the indiscriminate rounds of rubber bullets that turned one of the main streets- Mohamed Mahmoud st.- leading to Tahrir square into a battle field, Mona got trapped in an ambush as the protesters suddenly retreated to find herself surrounded by police soldiers.
That much of the story of the police/protesters clashes we knew from the media, but what we don’t know is what exactly happened to the 1200 plus protesters the police had captured during the clashes and mainly in that street leading to the infamous building of Egypt’s ministry of interior. … The arrest of Mona Eltahawy helped us find out.
Actually this was not only the missing part out of the Tahrir story but it also turned out to be the hidden story of one of the reasons why this whole revolution erupted in the first place.
On the TV interview Mona sorrowfully but unshakably recounted the story of her abduction, beating and sexual molestation by the police soldiers
“Besides beating me so monstrously my left arm and right hand were broken; the dogs of (central security forces) subjected me to the worst sexual assault ever. Five or six surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.” Mona said.
Mona had been abducted from that street by the most savage security forces, moved to the ministry of interior where she was under the constant danger of being sexually harassed and then she was transferred to the military intelligence headquarters where she was detained for like five hours.
During those long hours Mona was locked in a room, absolutely deprived of any human right of being read her rights or knowing why she was arrested and not even allowed to make a phone call to let her friends know where she was.
Fiction vs. reality
The protesters in Tahrir square came under barrages of tear gas and rubber bullets fired by the police forces.
Now most of us have watched scenes like these in the movies, but this was no fiction. This was real.
This kind of unbelievable tyranny and oppression is what the Egyptians have been enduring for ages.
Many are wondering why Egyptians have been carrying on since the ouster of Mubarak, almost 9 months now, with no security on the streets, and why the police forces are not back to business as usual. But those people are not aware of the fact that Mubarak’s regime, as well as the regime of his predecessor was simply a police regime.
Hence, choosing January 25 – the national police day in Egypt- as the launch day for the revolution was no coincidence.
And when the head of a police regime goes down you don’t get to see the police as often as you used to or as friendly and protective as you might expect. And this also explains the vengeful brutality of the police in their latest crackdown on protesters whom they view as the main reason for the demise of their long-time mighty regime.
In that extremely painful experience, Mona has lived moments of fear, humiliation, pain and vulnerability.
But those are the very same feelings most Egyptians are experiencing in their daily life and they don’t even have to get arrested to feel degraded or vulnerable; all they have to do is to queue up in a long line that could drag out for hours just to buy a loaf of bread or sign the endless papers to apply for an ID card or a driving license or wait their turn to get examined in a hospital which has no beds or medication for them.
And you could get arrested anytime anywhere in Egypt and practically for a crime you probably never heard of before. And before your folks knew about it you could be thrown in some filthy and overcrowded cell waiting to be tried before a military court where your appointed lawyer- if you were allowed one in the first place- could not examine evidences, call any witnesses or even appeal the verdict.
Mona Eltahawy will have to live with the memory of those horrible hours for the rest of her life, but most Egyptians will have to indefinitely endure through this humiliation and vulnerability if they failed to save the Tahrir revolution they all hope would help fulfill their demands of freedom and social justice.
When Mona Eltahawy sneaked into the street where the fierce scuffles broke out between the pro-democracy protesters and the police forces little did she know that she was taking a leap into the real story of the battle of Egypt revolution.
When Mona was released from her detention, thanks to her American passport, she didn’t jump on the first flight back to the US, but she headed straight to Tahrir square where she joined the thousands of angry Egyptians and wholeheartedly shouted with them “ down with the regime”.
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