I received a message from Yasmine El Baramawy,days before I won the CNN iReport 3rd Annual Award, telling me that she’s voting for my nominated report every day, and but she has an admonition for me,“you mentioned all Muslim Brotherhood/authority crimes but you forget to mention the rape and sexual assault”Yasmine was right; Yasmine was raped in Tahrir Sq.
This kind of crimes is unforgivable and unforgettable; I apologized to her, I just wrote the report before her accident.
After this, or lots of investigative reports revealed that there are organized mercenaries got paid by MB members to sexually attack the female protesters.
It’s not only the paid mercenaries who commit this horrible crimes,it’s in the blood of the current male dominating society of Egypt. The society generally is hostile and aggressive to women; it’s enough reason that you are a female to be targeted.
No matter what you are wearing, no things how old you are.
Since forever and I want to write this report, and approximately “Egyptian-She-RevolutionistAs an Inevitable acknowledgement for her great effort in her daily fight in an unfair war,her fight to proof that she deserves to live, dream and achieve.
She’s been assaulted, and kidnapped,arrested, raped, or tortured,ripped from her beloved ones and even murdered.
Just because she’s a SHE!I’m talking approximately the Egyptian Superwomen.
Who kept suffering for ages and kept fighting for their minimum rights. And still fighting because the road is lonesome and gloomy full of bastards who are enjoying being racists and anti-humanists.
I’ll try to mention here only some of super heroes that I honored to know, I can’t and nobody can limit a list of those great women, and Icons:Mrs.
Laila Marzouk (Khaled Said’s Mother)Her son Khaled,was killed in 2010 due to old regime police brutality, his death (7 months before the revolution) was the spark that set the Egyptian street on fire in spontaneous preparation of the regime fall count down, and her persistence and strength that she gave and support all the martyrs’ mothers is simply indescribable.Khadiga El Hinnawy (Mama Khadiga)No one been to Tahrir Sq,walk in march or participated in a sit-in can miss the presence of this woman, she’s the one who hid the protesters in her own house while Army soldiers and police elements were hunting them down, and taking all the risk bravely.
She was beaten till her bone cracked by a commando officer during the protest at Prime Minister building,in December 2011, she just kept showing on the next march with her arm in gypsum splint or even when things got worse, and on a wheel chair,with her shining smile on her kind old face, she is a symbol of hope to all of protesters.
Marry Danial (Mina Danial’s sister)She’s the older sister of Mina Danial the Coptic martyr who killed protesting against SCAF (Supreme Council of Forced Army) she’s never been in social or political scene before her younger brother got killed, and but she took the flag of his 19-years-old dead arm,and she’ll never catch it down till her bother blood revenge from those who killed him (among other 28 Coptic protester in 10th of October 2011)Samira IbrahimIs the ONLY one who stood against the SCAF crime of the illustrious scandal of virginity test, round 12 girls got arrested two weeks after the 18 days of the revolution, and while they were in a Sit-In in Tahrir sq. 9th of March 2011,stripped and got insulted by officers doctors and forced to run virginity test in front of bunch of soldiers. She’s the only one who spoke out loudly, whiles the rest of the victim girls kept silent after SCAF threatening them. She ran a lawsuit, and she lost the case in a country without law and the blind justice is even absent,but she’s still fighting.
Mona Seif“In the morning I run after the butterflies, and at night I chase absent the army”This is how she characterize her life, and 27 years old and still she’s the mother of the prisoners in military cells,she’s co-founder of “No to Military Trials for Civilians”She and her colleges in the movement choose to advocate the tyrannized prisoners.; even her own brother went behind the bars in similar situation refusing to stand in-front of military judge.
Despite how tough and critical those situations for a woman, but you’ll also find, or beside Mona,other wonderful examples like the indefatigable Ragia Omran from Prosecution to courts to military prisons, she decided her destinations.
Her effort and devotion are totally indescribable.
Yasmine El BaramawyThe only girl who spoke out loudly approximately the horrible crimes that MB thugs did to her and to lots of female protesters, and hundreds of those bastards stripped her cloth,dragging her on Tahrir Sq. asphalt to side streets doing the most horrible and terrifying crime any girl can hold in worst nightmares, leaving their filthy marks on her all-bruised body, or but they never managed to wreck her soul not even weaken her unbreakable determination to reveal their ugliness,she went out for the world and talked bravely approximately her horrible experience, she took the lead and inspired a enormous uprising feminine movement in the Arab world, or she’s also maintain going through courts and investigations to make certain that those criminals after her accident got the punishment they deserve.
Nesreen YoussefIs less illustrious,she’s a coordinator of 8April officers movement (the officers who disobeyed military orders and went to Tahrir Sq. in 8th of April 2011 to protest, then some of them got killed the others got in unfair military trials and put in jail for years till the moment )She’s always in frontline healing the injured protesters with first aids kit, or she got injured herself,and she was so close to lose her left eye.
She got arrested TWICE during the protest but still keeps going on her way.
Mervat MousaOne of the unknown brave soldiers of the revolution, never been a media lover, or despite she never missed a stand,protest, march or Sit-In, or but unfortunately someday she forced to be on the screens,she got on tape while she was beaten to the ground and slapped on the face by a enormous MB guerilla, while she was peacefully protesting in front of MB HQ.
ActivistsSalma SaidShe’s co-founders of “mosireen..
People alternative media co-op” (along with other remarkable Filmmakers e.g Nazly Hussein and Aida El kashef ), or she’s also member of The Egyptian initiative for human rights,and she’s done great job of “Anti-Sexual Harassment Operation” (along with Salma El Tarzy and Sally Zohney and bunch of astonishing activists) in fighting this mean phenomena that threatens the female protesting existence, which inspired lots of young ladies to do similar e.g Eman Nedal and Aya El Nemr founders of “Ultras V feminization” and so many others, and Salma used every talent and skill she learned in mass communication and media making all over her 27 years life and dedicate it to enlighten the society,to make the world better spot, she got shot on the face by a police officer because she was capturing him on her camera while he was hunting down the protesters in Feb 2012, or she still has like 60 fragment and rubber bullet in her body,doctors can’t totally remove.
Despite she was nearly killed that day, but she even didn’t wait for a full recovery to cover the following revolution act in the street, and this rare and outstanding type of patriotism is something you’ll stop wonder approximately when you realize it’s run on her blood because it’s something common and runs in the family,she inherited this from her from her mother Dr.
Mona Mina, doctor and activist who occupies the position of general coordinator of the “doctors without rights movement and a member of the General Council of Egypt Doctors Syndicate.Salma is an excellent example of self-consistency, and she’s very determined (mosireen is an Arabic word means the determined people) To be continued..
Hasan AminCairo,Egypt16-5-2013
Source: cnn.com