Nazra for Feminist Studies

In an escalatory and unjustified step, police forces have raided the premises of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR) at around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday December 18, 2013, in which they violently assaulted and arrested six of the staff and volunteers: Mostafa Eissa, the Head of the Documentaries Unit; Mahmoud Belal, Lawyer in the Criminal Justice Unit; and Hossam Mohamed Nasr, Mahmoud ElSayed, Mohamed Adel and Sherif Mansour, volunteers in the Media Unit.

In an unprecedented escalation, the Egyptian security forces, in the early hours of the morning, raided the headquarters of the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights, and arrested Mustafa Eissa, Head of Documentary unit at ECESR, and ECESR lawyer Mahmoud Bilal, as well as three other volunteers: Ashour Mansour, Hossam Mohamed Nasr, Sayed Mahmoud El-Sayed and Mohamed Adel.

Masses of the Egyptian people took to the streets within and outside of the capital on 30 June 2013 expressing the demand of deposing the President, Muhammad Morsi. This was a new wave of the revolt by Egyptians against a power ruling them, since the January 25 Revolution of 2011. On 3 July, Colonel General Abdul Fattah el-Sissi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Minister of Defense, ousted President Morsi and presented a roadmap for the upcoming transitional period.

Issues of political participation of women are among the most controversial issues in countries like Egypt which is witnessing for many years now considerable political mobility in which women have been participating very actively. Such political mobility was renewed and manifested itself in a new wave of the Egyptian revolution on the 30th of June 2013, leading to the removal of Mohammed Morsi from power and the assignment of the president of the Supreme Constitutional Court as an interim president.

Egyptians masses took to the streets inside Cairo and outside it, on June 30 2013 to express their demand of deposing president Mohammad Morsi in a new wave of the Egyptian people's revolution against the ruling authority, which had started on the 25th  of January 2011.

The undersigned feminist organizations and groups condemn the reactions of the Egyptian authorities, represented in the office of the presidency and the Ministry of Health, towards the violent sexual assaults that took place in the vicinity of Tahrir Square from June 28th 2013 to July 3rd 2013.  The recorded incidents of sexual assaults have reached 101 cases of varying intensity.

This report presents, in chronological order, a compendium of testimonies of survivors of rape and different sexual assaults, and testimonies of the women and men who have formed volunteer groups to ward off attacks against women. The report also present a snapshot of the statements issued to denounce these attacks, and the analysis of some rights organizations of the attacks.

Nomination for parliamentary elections after the revolution was a rich and unique experience for me. In the beginning, my name was suggested by some of my friends who are political activists. I knew that this idea was welcomed by the prominent Egyptian scientist, Prof.