Egypt’s Forgotten Prisoners

Not only are Egypt’s prisoners expected to bear the isolation, torture, and physical and psychological pain, but they are also expected to refrain from expressing the agony of their struggle.

by Noor El-Terk

As the sixth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution came and went, I found myself listening to Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. It is my friend Mahmoud Abu Zeid’s favorite song, a photojournalist who has been in prison in Egypt since August 2013 for documenting the Rabaa Square massacre.

When the Egyptian military brutally cleared Rabaa’s a…