In the early hours of Thursday July 10th, 2006, Mohammad Al-Sharqawy and Kareem Al-Sha’er were released from the Cairo Security Directorate after spending 56 days in Egyptian prison. Sharqawy and Sha’er were arrested separately on May 25th, 2006 after leaving a peaceful assembly at the Cairo Press Syndicate, Downtown. They were never formally charged with a crime. The two detainees, members of a Kefaya offshoot group called Youth for Change, endured not only brutality and torture from prison officials, but also from criminals with whom they were forced to share cells. They reported facing death threats, violent skirmishes, filthy living conditions and the constant fear of rough interrogation. Gamal ‘Eid, the lawyer for Sharqawy and Sha’er, has issued repeated requests for an investigation of the Qasr el-Nil police officers implicated in the torture of Sharqawy that involved sexual abuse, unrestrained beatings and most horrific of all, sodomy with a cardboard tube. At the time of his release, Sharqawy had yet to receive the required medical attention for the above mentioned events. Their treatment illustrates the danger of unrestricted power concentrated in the hands of the State Security, the police and the Public Prosecutor.