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https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/109039_egyptian_police_truck.jpg600400It was in the first week of this April, before noon prayers, when the doorbell rang. My mother saw a muscular man dressed in a white shirt and trousers standing at the door. She was too scared to open it, especially as he looked like a military man. He rang the bell several times. When no one answered, he knocked on the door of the flat opposite and asked our neighbour if someone named Haitham Ghoniem lived here. He questioned her about my whereabouts: asking when I leave home, when I return and whether my family lives with me or not. Then he proceeded to scour the entire building. My mother called and warned me not to come home ever again. Enemy of the state I should not have been surprised. My nightmare began three months earlier, in January, when I was arrested while on my way to the mosque for afternoon prayers.