#Tahrir : Mona Al Tahawy assaulted at Mohamed Mahmoud

This is how I started my day  when I woke up , a tweet from Mona El Tahawy to thousands of her followers that she was detained and beaten by security forces at the ministry of interior. We knew few details as I hinted in my journal about today’s major events that she was detained at the bloody Mohamed Mahmoud.
After few hours we found Mona announcing that she was free and after few minutes we being to know horrific details. Mona was a subjected of terrible sexual assaults by 5-6 CSF conscripts who attacked her terribly and mercilessly

She was dragged then to the MOI HQ where for 5 hours she waited for somebody to help her. Then military police transferred her to military intelligence HQ , she did not want to go at first because she is a civilian but one of the officers told her it was better to go politely and willingly.
At first she was blindfolded for 2 hours before somebody interrogated and ask her useless questions like why you are here and why you are in Tahrir. Mona made it clear that she is an American citizen and she wants a lawyer or someone from the embassy.
The military intelligence officers then told her to remove the blindfold and apologized for what the CSF did , they took photos for her bruises and recorded her ordeal then let her go.
Here is Mona with the casts in both hands.


Mona also spoke about that nightmare she had been through in CNN.
Mona will appear with Yosri Fouda tonight to speak about her ordeal
She is not the first journalist to be attacked brutally. Of course one ask what if it were not Mona El Tahawy but rather a simple Egyptian girl called Mona who got no passport except the Egyptian one , who is not a famous journalist but just simple Mona.
Reporters with borders are advising female reporters not to go to Tahrir square after this attack.