Ibrahim Halawa graduates from UCD law school after four ‘cold and dark’ years in Egyptian prison
Ibrahim was born and raised in Dublin and was arrested on a family summer holiday in August 2013 when he was 17.
He was arrested with his three sisters during protests against the ousting of then President Mohamed Morsi.
The women were freed and allowed to return home within three months, but their teenage brother was kept in jail where he faced a mass trial with hundreds of others under threat of the death penalty.
On Thursday, he graduated from the UCD Sutherland School of Law.
He said: “My imprisonment was cold, unforgiving, dark, and suffocating. At 17, I was thrown into a nightmare. Unjustly imprisoned, beaten, and tortured, facing 19 charges that could have led to the death penalty.
“I thought my life was over before it had even begun. I remember staring out of that tiny cell window, trying to see beyond those walls, beyond the life that was slipping away. For a long time, all I could see was darkness.
“But there was something deeper inside me, something that wouldn’t let…
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