The last tweets from Egyptian columnist and activist Mona Eltahawy in the early hours of November 24 paint a scene of escalating chaos.
First, shortly after midnight, Eltahawy, positioned across the street from the American University in Cairo - less than a five minute walk from Tahrir Square - described the confusion in the area [sic]:
Can't believe it. A cacaphony sirens, horns, flashing ambulance lights.
Then, shortly thereafter, she continued the narrative she'd been weaving via tweets on her Android phone:
Pitch black, only flashing ambulance lights and air thick with gas
But then, Eltahawy went silent for three hours or so. And then, a final tweet, via a phone that was not her own,
Beaten arrested in interior ministry
She sent out a tweet around eight hours later announcing that she had been freed and posting a photo her injured right hand, and almost immediately started issuing a rapid-fire, blistering series of tweets detailing being groped, blindfolded and being "subjected to the worse sexual assault ever". More + photos...
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First, shortly after midnight, Eltahawy, positioned across the street from the American University in Cairo - less than a five minute walk from Tahrir Square - described the confusion in the area [sic]:
Can't believe it. A cacaphony sirens, horns, flashing ambulance lights.
Then, shortly thereafter, she continued the narrative she'd been weaving via tweets on her Android phone:
Pitch black, only flashing ambulance lights and air thick with gas
But then, Eltahawy went silent for three hours or so. And then, a final tweet, via a phone that was not her own,
Beaten arrested in interior ministry
She sent out a tweet around eight hours later announcing that she had been freed and posting a photo her injured right hand, and almost immediately started issuing a rapid-fire, blistering series of tweets detailing being groped, blindfolded and being "subjected to the worse sexual assault ever". More + photos...
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