Shortly after arriving at Egypt‘s notorious Tora prison on 17 August, the Canadian film-maker John Greyson was beaten and kicked so hard that for the next week „there was a single bootprint perfectly etched on my back“. His companion Tarek Loubani – a Canadian-Palestinian doctor – was subjected to the same brutal treatment. „We both went foetal to try to protect ourselves,“ remembers Greyson. „I was in pain for about a week.“