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A Blanket on Fire: Inside Egypt’s Silent Rebellion Behind Bars

It began with the smell of burning fabric. Inside the walls of Badr 3 Correctional and Rehabilitation Center—where silence is enforced by surveillance cameras, constant light, and isolation—a group of detainees set fire to their prison blankets. It was not an act of violence, but a desperate cry.

A Blanket on Fire: Inside Egypt’s Silent Rebellion Behind Bars
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