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Wait, @MonaEltahawy GOT ARRESTED?! When? What happened? any updates? #Tahrir #Egypt
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El-Tahawy has gathered many admirers with her activism and outspokenness. As one female Arab journalist wrote on her blog when she heard about the arrest:Apart from a few exchanges on Twitter - about...
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El-Tahawy posted this photo from Mohammed Mahmoud street, which has become the front of the heaviest fighting, shortly before she disappeared. She tweeted: “The Tahrir motorbike heroes waiting for...
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She also posted this photo of herself with BBC reporters Lyse Doucet and Shaimaa Khalil, overlooking Tahrir Square.
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At the time of her arrest El-Tahawy was with another Egyptian blogger, Maged Butter, who was detained alongside her.With @monaeltahawy in Mohammed Mahmoud, total chaos lots of injuries #tahrir
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The hastag #FreeMona was quickly adopted on Tweets calling for the blogger’s release.
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TT El Nadeem Centre: @monaeltahawy arrest location is still unknown, while @MagButter got beaten up by police and now in hospital. #tahrir
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After an initial Tweet reading “I AM FREE”, El-Tahawy tweeted the following:
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El-Tahawy had recently received US citizenship, prompting the US Embassy in Cairo to get involved in investigating her arrest:
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But the news was picked up internationally and politicians called for her release. President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek tweeted on Thursday morning:
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He was hospitalised after being badly beaten during his detention.
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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 harassment ever
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Her last Tweet before her release caused a furore on Twitter as many tried to find out more about her exact whereabouts.
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El-Tahawy tweeted this photo after her release. As it turned out later, she had both her left arm and right hand broken.My right hand is so swollen I can't close it http://yfrog.com/kg19hhuj
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