Four years ago, young people led the 25 January Revolution with the slogan “Bread, freedom and social justice.” Today, many of those who fought for the removal of then president Hosni Mubarak are behind bars. The facts and figures surrounding those arrest numbers are now a source of controversy. According to the website Wikithawra, between 1 July 2012 and 26 June 2013 there were 4,809 young people under arrest, including 34 students. There were 68 military trials for civilians. Between 3 July 2013 and 15 May 2014, there were 41,163 young people behind bars, including 926 children, 4,768 students, 166 journalists and 1,250 civilians questioned by the military prosecution or referred to military court (including for felonies and political cases). Fifty-three were sentenced to death. According to Sarah Al-Masry, a researcher at the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE), from 2013 to 2014 more than 12 journalists were arrested for offences directly related to their jobs. According to the AFTE, in the 2014 academic year 705 university students were permanently or for a fixed period dismissed from university, denied access to a student dorm permanently or for a fixed period, denied the right to take exams, or denied the right to join student activities for one year. One student was prevented from completing his Master's degree. Since the dispersal of the Rabaa sit-in in 2013 896 students have been arrested. In the academic year 2014-2015, 370 students were arrested, three of whom were sent for military trial. According to Freedom for Students, an activist group, from December 2013 to December 2014, 1,623 students were arrested, including 31 school children aged between 12 and 18. According to the Al-Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Victims of Violence, an NGO, in 2011 a total of 363 people, 258 men and 105 women, and 238 Egyptians and 125 foreigners, were admitted to the centre's programmes. For 2012, these figures were 263 people (192 men and 71 women, and 132 Egyptians and 131 foreigners); for 2013 they were 230 people (168 men and 62 women, and 115 Egyptians and 115 foreigners); and for 2014 they were 143 people (82 men and 61 women, and 81 Egyptians and 62 foreigners). According to the website Wikithawra, during the first 18 days of the 25 January Revolution, 1,075 people were killed. During the 18-month rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), 438 died. Meanwhile, during the one-year rule of president Mohamed Morsi 470 died. During the rule of interim president Adli Mansour and President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, 3,248 people lost their lives up until 31 January 2014. During the dispersal of the Rabaa and Al-Nahda sit-ins, from 14 August to 1 September 2013, 1,817 people died. According to the website, under the rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, 16,806 people were injured. During Morsi's rule this figure was 9,228; under interim president Adli Mansour and President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, 15,913 people were injured up until 3 December 2013. During the dispersal of the Rabaa and Al-Nahda sit-ins in 2013, 7,724 people were injured. From 3 July 2013 to 28 February 2014, 18,535 people were injured. The writer is a freelance journalist.
