Editor’s note: Isobel Coleman could be the writer of “Paradise Beneath Her Feet” and a fellow that is senior U.S. international policy during the Council on Foreign Relations in brand New York.
(CNN) — back March, Amnesty Overseas started reporting that the Egyptian military had exposed 17 females protesters at a Tahrir Square demonstration to “virginity tests.” The ladies told Amnesty which they was handcuffed and beaten, stripped searched and photographed by male soldiers, then restrained by female soldiers while a person in a white layer performed a virginity check.
The army denied the accusations, however in recent times, a senior general has confirmed to CNN that certainly, the virginity tests happened. The overall justified the abuse by saying these ladies “were in contrast to your child or mine. (more…)