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Diary #26

26/6/2005

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Hossam el-Hamalawy
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Lazoughly Square, 26 June 2005.

Emboldened by continuous mobilizations since late 2000, we decided to break a HUGE taboo by organizing a protest in Lazoughly Square, right in front of the Ministry of Interior HQ (that housed the notorious State Security Police central office, where I was held and tortured in October 2000).

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