On Tahrir Square, symbol of the 18 days that shook modern Egypt, traffic has resumed.
Whereas ten years ago, thousands of demonstrators camped in the nerve center of Cairo, today, it is not even possible any more to take out a camera there.
After a democratic experiment that lasted a year and brought the Muslim Brotherhood to the presidency, the army returned to take power through a coup, headed by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then minister of defense.
Political prisoners and "disappeared"
Since then, the regime has hardened, the Muslim Brotherhood has been declared a "terrorist organization" and any protest is now repressed.
Human rights NGOs estimate the number of political prisoners to be at least 60,000.
Mohamed Soltan spent nearly three years in prison and has since gone into exile in the United States.
On the other side of the Atlantic, he is leading a legal fight against the Egyptian authorities.
In this context of repression, the great fear of the Egyptians is to become a "disappeared".
With his NGO, Mohamed Lotfy has recorded at least 2,700 enforced disappearances, arrests outside of any legal procedure, which the government denies the existence.
Ten years later, the fervor that animated Egyptian society has turned into a climate of fear.
>> See also, our Debate: Revolution in Egypt: ten years later, what results?
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