CAIRO (AP) - In Yassin Mohammed`s sketches and paintings, he and other Egyptian prisoners are crammed into tiny cells, feet in each other`s faces and their few belongings hanging from the walls. The cramped scenes, defined by bars and closed cell doors, capture the claustrophobic reality of Egypt`s prisons, where tens of thousands have been locked away, often for months or years without charge, in the heaviest crackdown on dissent in the country`s modern history. `One day, all this pain will go away,` one watercolor proclaims. Mohammed, who walked free last month after serving a two-year sentence for taking part in a protest, chronicled daily life in his cellblock in dozens of sketches and...
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