Resistance and Art

Index on Censorship
Art or Vandalism?
by Yasmine El Rashidi – October 10, 2011

Ayman handed himself in at noon on 27 April 2009. The police had been searching for him for three days, and his name had made headlines in the local press. He was the criminal still at large – his two accomplices had already been caught. They were held in an unknown location, under investigation. We all knew they were being interrogated, maybe even tortured.

The phone call had come the night before.
‘We need your help.’
‘They’re looking for him.’
‘He’s scared to go alone.’
‘I’m not sure what to do. Nobody wants to touch this case. I need you on this one, can you go with him?’

Ayman was a friend and I had worked with him on projects in the past. Maybe the presence of a woman would lessen the brutality he might face.

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