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Safaa Hussein was an 18-year-old high school student when she was arrested during a protest. The prison refused to let her finish her exams, even though she was first in her class, and she was expelled from Al-Azhar when she was sentenced to five years and a LE50,000 fine, though this was later reduced to three years on appeal. Hussein’s mum bought her a doll dressed like a bride. When her friends visited, she had dressed the doll in a white prison uniform. “She told us she named her ‘Horreya' (freedom) and that she wanted the doll to leave prison so she could be free and not captive like her,” her friend recalls. Hussein described her prison conditions to her friends, explaining that she lives in a three by four meter cell with 20 other women. They do everything inside the cell — eat, drink, wash their clothes, and some read. They stay there night and day. The women are in such close proximity to one another that they can hardly move.