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Asmaa Hamdy, a dentistry undergraduate at Al-Azhar University, was arrested on campus and sentenced to five years in prison for taking part in a protest denouncing the violent dispersal of the pro-Mohamed Morsi Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in. Her fiance Ibrahim wrote to her in prison with promises of them getting married on her release. The letters were her only window to the outside world. She asked him to take a picture of himself writing to her and sent it to her, and she kept both the letter and the photo. Hamdy was released after three years, but Ibrahim had been forcibly disappeared by security forces and his whereabouts are still unknown.