CAIRO (AP) — Yassin Mohammed's sketches and paintings show him and other prisoners crammed into tiny cells.
The scenes capture the claustrophobic reality of Egyptian prisons, where tens of thousands have been locked away, often for months or years without charge, in the heaviest crackdown on dissent in Egypt's modern history.
Mohammed walked free last month after serving a two-year sentence for taking part in a protest. He has been in and out of prison since 2013, when the military overthrew a freely elected but divisive Islamist president.
He says he wasn't physically abused but the real torment came from the unending boredom and the total lack of privacy.
Mohammed's only escape was through art. Fearing that the guards would destroy the art if they found it, he smuggled the paintings out.
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