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There were around 70 or 80 people in a room measuring three metres by three metres. We were almost sitting on top of each other,\" said a recently freed activist Khaled el-Sayed.\u003cbr/\u003eThe flood of arrests, often from wide sweeps against street protests, has swamped prisons and the legal system.\u003cbr/\u003eMany are held for months in police station lock-ups meant as temporary holding areas or in impromptu jails set up in police training camps because prisons are overcrowded. Inmates are kept for months without charge. \u003cbr/\u003eEl-Sayed, a veteran of the 2011 revolution, was arrested with two other prominent liberal activists as they drove in a car in downtown Cairo on January 25, a day that saw multiple protests by both Islamists and secular anti-military groups.\u003cbr/\u003eReleased earlier this month, he described his ordeal to The Associated Press saying he was \"beaten with sticks and given electric shocks\", poorly fed and left in freezing cells with just one blanket. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the first police station they were taken to, in Cairo's Azbakeya district, he said he and other detainees rounded up in protests were forced to stand blindfolded for 14 hours and were repeatedly punched and beaten with sticks.\u003cbr/\u003eHe and the others were taken to a second police station and held for 10 days, with about 15 people crammed in a 7-square-metre cell, then taken to Abu Zaabal prison just north of Cairo.\u003cbr/\u003eThe arriving inmates were beaten with sticks, el-Sayed said.\u003cbr/\u003eAfterward, they were packed 30 inmates in a single cell, with no mattresses or beds, only a blanket to sleep on the cold concrete floor.\u003cbr/\u003eEl-Sayed would spend the next 16 days there. Several inmates got sick with fevers but were refused medical treatment. \u003cbr/\u003eHis wife Hoda Mahmoud believes the current regime has \"created a monster out of the Muslim Brotherhood\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"While I'm extremely against the Muslim Brotherhood I will not accept that they use this to justify the return of the old regime in Egypt,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eAuthorities are determined to crush the Muslim Brotherhood - now declared a terror group in Egypt - and its Islamist allies after the military's ouster of Morsi.\u003cbr/\u003eThe crackdown has expanded to arrests of secular activists critical of the military and the interim government.\u003cbr/\u003eSecular and liberal pro-democracy activists are vilified in the overwhelmingly pro-military media, cast as agents of foreign powers or unpatriotic.\u003cbr/\u003eKhaled Dawoud, spokesman for the liberal Al-Dostour party, says there is \"a retreat in the status of human rights in Egypt.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"And although we led two major revolts for the sake of a democratic state we are back in to a situation were we see the arrest of the youth leaders, like Khaled and his colleagues,\" said Dawoud, whose Constitution Party was founded by the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner, Mohamed ElBaradei.\u003cbr/\u003eMore than the Islamists, according to rights activists, known liberal revolutionaries who played a part in the 2011 revolution are singled out for the worst treatment while in detention, say the activists.\u003cbr/\u003eRights lawyers say up to 15 more people may have died in detention since July. Last summer, as many as 37 inmates died in a police truck under unclear circumstances.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military and security officials deny that police brutality is back, label as grossly exaggerated reports of ill treatment and will only acknowledge \"mistakes\" they blame on overzealous junior members of the security forces as well as the scarcity of resources. \u003cbr/\u003eThey also point out that the ill treatment of detainees is somewhat understandable given that dozens of policemen have in the past eight months been gunned down on the streets by hit men suspected to be Islamists loyal to Morsi.\u003cbr/\u003eEveryone in custody, say the officials, is there for good reason.\u003cbr/\u003eMarch 8, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e1. Freed activist Khaled el-Sayed and his wife Hoda Mahmoud heading for conference on freedom in Egypt\u003cbr/\u003e2. El Sayed and wife entering conference hall\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khaled el-Sayed, freed activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We were handcuffed. There were around 70 or 80 people in a room measuring three metres by three metres. We were almost sitting on top of each other. Later we were blindfolded during the interrogation with the National Security officials. During the interrogation we were beaten with sticks and given electric shocks.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of el-Sayed's face\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khaled el-Sayed, freed activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When we went to our cell they brought us very bad food. There were some that were sick and needed medication and they weren't allowed to have their medication or (to see) a doctor. Each one of us had to sleep on the floor with only one blanket and it was freezing cold.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 26 November 2013\u003cbr/\u003e6. Protesters running away from riot police chasing them during protest in Cairo near Tahrir square\u003cbr/\u003e7. Riot police chasing protesters near Tahrir square\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 11 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e8. Police arresting Muslim Brotherhood students of Al Azhar university during protest outside the university and dragging them into police truck\u003cbr/\u003eFILE -15 January 2014\u003cbr/\u003e9. Police arresting Muslim Brotherhood members, leading them away from a house\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - 6 October 2013\u003cbr/\u003e10. Riot police arresting Muslim Brotherhood protesters \u003cbr/\u003eMarch 8, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khaled el-Sayed, freed activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The police took me in for an interrogation and he (policeman) started to swear at me and (talk) against the revolution. I told him that I should be treated in a good manner and then he got really crazy. And he and his colleagues started to beat me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of Khaled el-Sayed reading book\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khaled el-Sayed, freed activist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The mentality of the police never changed. We got arrested inside a car but they faked accusations against us and charged us with resisting the arrest, staging illegal protests and possession of a sling shot.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. El-Sayed and his wife talking\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hoda Mahmoud, wife of Khaled el-Sayed:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I know the current regime wants to silence any voice that challenges them. They created a monster out of the Muslim Brotherhood and while I'm extremely against the Muslim Brotherhood I will not accept that they use this to justify the return of the old regime in Egypt and Khaled is a loud voice that speaks against this.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 10 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of Cairo university Muslim Brotherhood students throwing stones at riot police \u003cbr/\u003e17. Riot police armoured vehicles firing tear gas at Muslim Brotherhood protesters outside Cairo university\u003cbr/\u003eMarch 8, 2014\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khaled Dawoud, spokesman for the liberal Al-Dostour party: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We are witnessing a retreat in the status of human rights in Egypt. And although we led two major revolts for the sake of a democratic state we are back into a situation were we see the arrest of the youth leaders, like Khaled and his colleagues.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 27 December 2013\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid of activists Ahmed Maher and Ahmed Douma, leading figures in Egypt's 2011 uprising, behind bars in courtroom\u003cbr/\u003e20. 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