After a brief interrogation they were blindfolded and passed between different military services. They were handed to the army and detained for five hours who took them to a military police compound. When being moved between different bases they were blindfolded and terrorised.
In the police compound, they were separated and further interrogated and imprisoned for 10 hours without food. After managing to make contact with the UK to inform friends that they were being detained their phones were seized. Following hours in incarceration the two British people were moved to join journalists, Internationals, Egyptian’s with dual nationality and Palestinians in a police compound. The group were detained in a court yard. The military police blindfolded them, ordered them to stand looking at the floor for hours and threatened that if they moved they would be shot.
All those detained were eventually released and taken to a hotel under the imposed state curfew. With heavy restriction of movement the attacks on foreign nationalists and journalists is another side of the repression of the Egyptian rebellion and is representative of the orchestrated offensive against the uprising of the Egyptian people against the thirty yearlong dictatorship of ‘President’ Mubarak.
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