Amnesty Blogs: Press release me, let me go : Not like your daughter or mine: forced 'virginity tests' in Egypt
Source: http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/blogs_entry.asp?eid=7756
You might have missed the remarks made by an Egyptian general to CNN this week. He was talking about the army's treatment of a group of women who had formed part of a protest in Tahrir Square on 9 March.
The general, who apparently wanted to remain anonymous, is quoted as saying:
"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine. These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protestors in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and drugs. We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place. None of them were."
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