Cairo, June 01: Egypt must investigate forced virginity test:Amnesty Cairo: Amnesty International called on the authorities in Egypt to bring to justice those responsible for forced virginity tests on female protesters, slamming it as “nothing less than torture.”
The London-based rights group’s statement came yesterday after an apparent admission by an army general to CNN that women detained on March 9 in Cairo had been subjected to virginity tests.
But a senior military official yesterday denied to AFP reports that the army had conducted such tests, saying “these allegations are baseless.”
The general, speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity, had defended the practice.
“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,” he told the US broadcaster.
“The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,” the general said.
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