Human Rights our Collective Responsibility Samira Ibrahim Communication 424/12 Mahmoud and Rasha Ali Abdel-Rahman (Represented by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) & Interights) vs. The Arab Republic of Egypt Summary of the Complaint: 1. The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (the Secretariat), received a complaint on 11 September 2012from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and Interights (the Complainants), acting on behalf of Samira Ibrahim Mohamed Mahmoud (the First Victim) and Rasha Abdel-Rahman (the Second Victim). 2. The complaint is submitted against the Arab Republic of Egypt, State Party to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (African Charter). 3. It is alleged that the first and the second victim were arrested after they participated in a sit-in at Tahrir Square in central Cairo in which they demanded amongst other things, the writing of a new Constitution and protested the military's brutality against peaceful demonstrators. It is further alleged that the victims and other detainees were transported to a military prison where they were subjected to beatings and electrocution as well as being subjected to a forced genital examination in prison. r' 4. "'4 Concerning the case of Ms. Samira Ibrahim Mahmoud in particular, it is alleged that a 25-year-old, female student from Sohag in the South of Egypt, was arrested by an officer in military uniform at a nearby pavement after leaving Tahir square, following a dispersal of demonstrations at the Square by the military on 9 March 2011. 5. IIPagc