Demonstrations against the regime during the January 25 revolution resulted in the violent assault and murder of prisoners by Police forces, according to a report from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights EIPR. The report, titled “Martyrs Behind Bars: The Killing and Torture of Prisoners after the January 25 Revolution,” said that many Egyptian prisons were in chaos after the revolution and was host to murder and torture or prisoners, many of whom fled. The report gathered testimony and evidence from five different prisons across four different Egyptian governorates. Researchers collected information on Cairo's Torah and Istea'naf prisons, Giza's Koutta Prison, Shebeen el-Koum Prison in Minoufiya, and Abaadiya Prison in Damahur. The researchers based their report on interviews and phone calls with inmates, and testimonies from relatives of inmates who were killed. Their research found that prison guards killed more than 100 prisoners between January 29 and February 20. Across the five prisons, unarmed prisoners were shot inside their cells. Those killed were not attempting to escape. The prisoners who were interviewed insisted prisoners who were inside the cells were shot intentionally. According to the report, security forces shot prisoners in the head or chest, despite their training which obligates them to target legs or non-lethal areas of the body, but only after warnings to prisoners attempting to escape or riot. One of the gravest testimonies came from Istea'naf prison, which interviewees witnessed prisoners being tortured before being shot at close range.
