252:, who was imprisoned in November 2013 for breaking the anti-demonstration law in addition to other charges, began a hunger strike from their respective prisons, while the rest of the family partook at home. This was in response to the Egyptian authorities refusing to clear Alaa Abd El-Fattah to visit his dying father, prominent humanitarian lawyer Ahmed Seif al-Islam, in addition to the jailing of Sanaa Seif. Both Sanaa and Alaa ended their hunger strike on November 19, 2014, after fears from their family that they were in danger of death. This is not the first time that Sanaa Seif has partaken in a hunger strike. On August 28, 2014, Sanaa underwent a hunger strike with several other women prisoners to protest the Protest and Public Assembly Law. The family has been known to go on frequent partial hunger strikes.
287:. She was an editor and shooter on the film. The film details the events of the Egyptian revolution from 2011 to 2013 through the perspective of young activists. The film is particularly critical of the Egyptian Military. The film received much critical acclaim winning awards at the Sundance Film Festival and winning best feature honor at the International Documentary Association. The film was even the first Egyptian film to be nominated for an Academy Award. While it received positive commentary abroad, at home its release was strictly controlled. It was made available on Netflix in January 2014, however the first showing in Egypt did not occur until June 2014 without any promotion.
192:, "the 22 defendants were appealing their sentencing to three years of imprisonment in October for violating the Protest Law and the use of violence with the aim of terrorising citizens". In addition to breaking Egypt's anti-demonstration laws, the protestors were charged with assaulting police officers and destroying public property. Since the time of the verdict, many international organizations including the
168:. Her activism only grew from there and at 17 years old Sanaa, after experiencing protests in Tahrir Square, started an independent newspaper "al-gornal" with a few friends. The independent paper, addressing issues at the heart of the Arab Spring, quickly began popular and production rose to more than 30,000 copies printed per issue.
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Seif has become a symbol of the revolution through her activist work. In the years since 2011, Sanaa's image has become more of a symbol to revolutionaries in Tahrir Square than her connection to her family's activism. She has been highly involved on the ground since attending the protest in response
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Since Seif's arrest her supporters have created both a
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On June 21, 2014, twenty-three men and women, including Seif, were arrested outside of the presidential palace in Cairo for protesting the
Egyptian protest law. The demonstration was to protest the government's anti-demonstration laws. In a resulting trial, the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced the
237:, a day earlier. The report stated that Sanaa was taken to the office of the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Cairo, where the prosecutors questioned her over the charges of “disseminating false news”, “inciting terrorist crimes” and “misuse of social media”.
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Since her initial involvement in the Arab Spring, Seif has also been very active in protest movements and human rights issues. Her image has become a symbol to revolutionaries who respect her political and human rights work and see her as a revolutionary spirit.
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to Khaled Said's beating and death at the hands of the
Egyptian police. Seif's image is seen by some as the spirit of the revolution prompting artistic representations of her such as the mural in Rome, Italy, by artist Ammar Abo Bakr.
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Seif began her activism in 2011 during the height of revolutionary protests in Egypt. Her first experience with protest happened when she became involved in a movement remembering
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