On Friday 25 September Amr Abn Hashad went to the Egyptian consulate in Istanbul for his tawkeel, or power of attorney. They gave him a receipt and asked him to come back and get his documents the following Monday at 12pm. Amr remembers thinking that was strange, because many people are offered appointments on the same day. Still, he went back on Monday and they asked him to wait outside. For an hour and a half, he watched other people entering and leaving. “No one else apart from me had to wait outside,” he tells me. Eventually, when everyone else had left, a staff member approached him and asked him to hand over his passport, despite the fact that he had … Continue reading ‘I was thinking about Khashoggi,’ says ex-Egypt political prisoner as consul lures him inside consulate