Egyptian General Defends 'Virginity Checks' on Protesters - Global - The Atlantic Wire: "Maj. Amr Imam said 17 women had been arrested but denied allegations of torture or 'virginity tests.' Now, a senior Egyptian general who asked not to be identified admits that 'virginity checks' were performed, and his defense of the practice reveals a disturbingly bleak attitude towards women.
'The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,' the general said. 'These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).'
He then offered the bizarre rationale that the virginity checks were done so that the women would not later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities. '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,' the general said. 'None of them were (virgins).' He did not further explain this confounding logic."
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'The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine,' the general said. 'These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).'
He then offered the bizarre rationale that the virginity checks were done so that the women would not later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities. '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,' the general said. 'None of them were (virgins).' He did not further explain this confounding logic."
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