Egypt virginity test
1 Oct An Egyptian MP has called for women to be forced to undergo virginity tests before being admitted to university, it has been reported.
Parliamentary member Elhamy Agina called on the Minister of Higher Education to issue a mandate requiring him or his officials to enforce the.
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'Horribly Humiliating': Egyptian Woman Tells of 'Virginity Tests'
'Horribly Humiliating': Egyptian Woman Tells of 'Virginity Tests' - SPIEGEL ONLINE
31 May Activists call for investigation into abuse after Egyptian general admits tests were conducted and defends practice.
Description:They celebrated the Jan. The riot police on the scene allowed all this to happen. Not only were women left off of the panel of experts that recommended constitutional reforms, but the military crackdown on March 9 protest seems to have been intended to signal a status quo and that the discrimination faced by women and religious and social minorities under the Mubarak regime would continue. The press also didn't give much attention to the Amnesty report when it first came out. One of the female victims, Salwa Hosseini, 20, told Amnesty that she and the other women were forced to remove their clothes before being strip-searched by a female guard. But the real value from the torturers' perspective is the message it sends to the rest of Egypt's women: The anonymous general's words reveal a frightening but not surprising attitude for people who know Egypt.
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