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Egyptian women protesters forced to take virginity tests
Women were often at the forefront of the recent demonstrations in Egypt
23 March 2011
Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced virginity tests, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month.
After army officers violently cleared the square of protesters on 9 March, at least 18 women were held in military detention. Amnesty International has been told by women protesters that they were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to virginity checks and threatened with prostitution charges.
Virginity tests are a form of torture when they are forced or coerced.
"Forcing women to have virginity tests is utterly unacceptable. Its purpose is to degrade women because they are women," said Amnesty International. "All members of the medical profession must refuse to take part in such so-called 'tests'."
20-year-old Salwa Hosseini told Amnesty International that after she was arrested and taken to a military prison in Heikstep, she was made, with the other women, to take off all her clothes to be searched by a female prison guard, in a room with two open doors and a window. During the strip search, Salwa Hosseini said male soldiers were looking into the room and taking pictures of the naked women.
The women were then subjected to virginity tests in a different room by a man in a white coat. They were threatened that those not found to be virgins would be charged with prostitution.
According to information received by Amnesty International, one woman who said she was a virgin but whose test supposedly proved otherwise was beaten and given electric shocks.
Women and girls must be able to express their views on the future of Egypt and protest against the government without being detained, tortured, or subjected to profoundly degrading and discriminatory treatment, said Amnesty International.
The army officers tried to further humiliate the women by allowing men to watch and photograph what was happening, with the implicit threat that the women could be at further risk of harm if the photographs were made public.
Journalist Rasha Azeb was also detained in Tahrir Square and told Amnesty International that she was handcuffed, beaten and insulted.
Following their arrest, the 18 women were initially taken to a Cairo Museum annex where they were reportedly handcuffed, beaten with sticks and hoses, given electric shocks in the chest and legs, and called prostitutes.
Rasha Azeb could see and hear the other detained women being tortured by being given electric shocks throughout their detention at the museum. She was released several hours later with four other men who were also journalists, but 17 other women were transferred to the military prison in Heikstep
Testimonies of other women detained at the same time collected by the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence are consistent with Rasha Azeb and Salwa Hosseinis accounts of beatings, electrocution and virginity tests.
The Egyptian authorities must halt the shocking and degrading treatment of women protesters. Women fully participated in bringing change in Egypt and should not be punished for their activism, said Amnesty International.
All security and army forces must be clearly instructed that torture and other ill-treatment, including forced virginity tests, will no longer be tolerated, and will be fully investigated. Those found responsible for such acts must be brought to justice and the courageous women who denounced such abuses be protected from reprisals.
All 17 women detained in the military prison were brought before a military court on 11 March and released on 13 March. Several received one-year suspended prison sentences.
Salwa Hosseini was convicted of disorderly conduct, destroying private and public property, obstructing traffic and carrying weapons.
Amnesty International opposes the trial of civilians before military courts in Egypt, which have a track record of unfair trials and where the right to appeal is severely restricted.
Women were often at the forefront of the recent demonstrations in Egypt
23 March 2011
Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced virginity tests, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month.
After army officers violently cleared the square of protesters on 9 March, at least 18 women were held in military detention. Amnesty International has been told by women protesters that they were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to virginity checks and threatened with prostitution charges.
Virginity tests are a form of torture when they are forced or coerced.
"Forcing women to have virginity tests is utterly unacceptable. Its purpose is to degrade women because they are women," said Amnesty International. "All members of the medical profession must refuse to take part in such so-called 'tests'."
20-year-old Salwa Hosseini told Amnesty International that after she was arrested and taken to a military prison in Heikstep, she was made, with the other women, to take off all her clothes to be searched by a female prison guard, in a room with two open doors and a window. During the strip search, Salwa Hosseini said male soldiers were looking into the room and taking pictures of the naked women.
The women were then subjected to virginity tests in a different room by a man in a white coat. They were threatened that those not found to be virgins would be charged with prostitution.
According to information received by Amnesty International, one woman who said she was a virgin but whose test supposedly proved otherwise was beaten and given electric shocks.
Women and girls must be able to express their views on the future of Egypt and protest against the government without being detained, tortured, or subjected to profoundly degrading and discriminatory treatment, said Amnesty International.
The army officers tried to further humiliate the women by allowing men to watch and photograph what was happening, with the implicit threat that the women could be at further risk of harm if the photographs were made public.
Journalist Rasha Azeb was also detained in Tahrir Square and told Amnesty International that she was handcuffed, beaten and insulted.
Following their arrest, the 18 women were initially taken to a Cairo Museum annex where they were reportedly handcuffed, beaten with sticks and hoses, given electric shocks in the chest and legs, and called prostitutes.
Rasha Azeb could see and hear the other detained women being tortured by being given electric shocks throughout their detention at the museum. She was released several hours later with four other men who were also journalists, but 17 other women were transferred to the military prison in Heikstep
Testimonies of other women detained at the same time collected by the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence are consistent with Rasha Azeb and Salwa Hosseinis accounts of beatings, electrocution and virginity tests.
The Egyptian authorities must halt the shocking and degrading treatment of women protesters. Women fully participated in bringing change in Egypt and should not be punished for their activism, said Amnesty International.
All security and army forces must be clearly instructed that torture and other ill-treatment, including forced virginity tests, will no longer be tolerated, and will be fully investigated. Those found responsible for such acts must be brought to justice and the courageous women who denounced such abuses be protected from reprisals.
All 17 women detained in the military prison were brought before a military court on 11 March and released on 13 March. Several received one-year suspended prison sentences.
Salwa Hosseini was convicted of disorderly conduct, destroying private and public property, obstructing traffic and carrying weapons.
Amnesty International opposes the trial of civilians before military courts in Egypt, which have a track record of unfair trials and where the right to appeal is severely restricted.
~Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.~
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The party will enjoy the legal personality and practice activities since the first day following 30 days of notification.
The party is not allowed to accept any donations or benefit from foreign or international person or authority, and/or from legal personalities even if he holds the Egyptian nationality as well.
The party's principles, programmes, activities, and selection of members shall not be based on the religious, geographical, or racial basis such as sex, origin, language, religion, religious belief.
The notification and documents of the party shall be presented to the parties committee within 15 days of notification.
The Committee shall be headed by first vice head of the Court of Cassation, and membership of two vice persons of the State Council in the Court of Appeal. Bye Bye Safwat
The party's founders or deputes shall publish names of founders at their own expense in two daily newspapers widely spread within 8 days of notification date.
The party will enjoy the legal personality and practice activities since the first day following 30 days of notification.
The party is not allowed to accept any donations or benefit from foreign or international person or authority, and/or from legal personalities even if he holds the Egyptian nationality as well.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François Fénelon
Geweldige post van Sandmonkey wat door de menigte ook is goedgekeurd:
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2011/03/20/playing-politics/
Ik zeg lees het door en stuur het door op internet!
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2011/03/20/playing-politics/
Ik zeg lees het door en stuur het door op internet!
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François Fénelon
Vooruitgang.quote:Egypte wil verbod op bepaalde demonstraties
Het Egyptische kabinet heeft woensdag een nieuwe wet voorgesteld waarmee sommige vormen van protest strafbaar worden gesteld. Als de wet wordt aangenomen dan kunnen deelnemers aan demonstraties die leiden tot vernielingen en werkonderbrekingen gestraft worden.
Volgens een woordvoerder gaat het kabinet de wet voorleggen aan de militaire raad die Egypte bestuurt sinds het aftreden van de voormalige president Hosni Mubarak. Of de militaire raad de wet goedkeurt is onduidelijk.
Het voorstel maakt duidelijk dat er grote angst bestaat bij de Egyptische regering dat de aanhoudende demonstraties en stakingen het economisch herstel van het land in de weg staan. Critici menen dat het wetsvoorstel bedoeld is om activisme in te perken.
Ze hebben wel een punt. Elke sloeber gaat nu ineens staken en protesteren omdat ie simpelweg meer geld wil
Goed stukquote:Op donderdag 24 maart 2011 03:04 schreef rakotto het volgende:
Geweldige post van Sandmonkey wat door de menigte ook is goedgekeurd:
http://www.sandmonkey.org/2011/03/20/playing-politics/
Ik zeg lees het door en stuur het door op internet!
Free Assange! Hack the Planet
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
Die hebben wij toch ook in Nederland?quote:
Ze hebben wel een punt. Elke sloeber gaat nu ineens staken en protesteren omdat ie simpelweg meer geld wil
(SP'ers)
Reken maar dat de 26e een HELE GROTE gaat worden. Wereldnieuws.quote:
Anti-cuts campaigners plan to turn Trafalgar Square into Tahrir Square
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire.
"There is no left and right, only right and wrong." Tinyint, DI forums.
"Doubt is the seed of misdirection." Ikzelf.
Voltaire.
"There is no left and right, only right and wrong." Tinyint, DI forums.
"Doubt is the seed of misdirection." Ikzelf.
Precies! Demonstraties in NL ook verbieden!quote:
Ze hebben wel een punt. Elke sloeber gaat nu ineens staken en protesteren omdat ie simpelweg meer geld wil
Free Assange! Hack the Planet
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
Tahrir nu
Crowds at tahrir chanting "no to the ndp no to the brotherhood, we are not going to return to the past."
Crowds at tahrir chanting "no to the ndp no to the brotherhood, we are not going to return to the past."
~Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.~
Same undercover police that was there last week, is here this week
~Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.~
Nou en, dat is democratie.quote:
Ze hebben wel een punt. Elke sloeber gaat nu ineens staken en protesteren omdat ie simpelweg meer geld wil
Goed om te zien dat de Egyptenaren nog steeds bezig zijn, het leger en de 'special forces' zitten natuurlijk helemaal niet te wachten op een echte democratie zoals zij het voor ogen zien.
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire.
"There is no left and right, only right and wrong." Tinyint, DI forums.
"Doubt is the seed of misdirection." Ikzelf.
Voltaire.
"There is no left and right, only right and wrong." Tinyint, DI forums.
"Doubt is the seed of misdirection." Ikzelf.
Wesley Clark legt uit hoe het zit:
“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire.
"There is no left and right, only right and wrong." Tinyint, DI forums.
"Doubt is the seed of misdirection." Ikzelf.
Voltaire.
"There is no left and right, only right and wrong." Tinyint, DI forums.
"Doubt is the seed of misdirection." Ikzelf.
Het is grappig maar geeft ook aan dat die mensen het heerlijk vinden om in een teringchaos te wonen en dan bedoel ik dus ook politiek.quote:
Momenteel fikt de Centrale bank van Egypte in Cairo
http://twitpic.com/4dgf78
Levantzica ツ Lavinia لافينيا
by Zeinobia
at 12:50 PM, smoke from a massive fire was seen towards Downtown Cairo. Anyone knows what's that exactly? #Jan25 http://twitpic.com/4dgf78
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hindrenaline Hind
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@Levantzica the Central Bank of Egypt is on fire according to Al Jazeera. It is empty as it's being renovated
35 minutes ago
Vraag me af of dat waar is.
http://twitpic.com/4dgf78
Levantzica ツ Lavinia لافينيا
by Zeinobia
at 12:50 PM, smoke from a massive fire was seen towards Downtown Cairo. Anyone knows what's that exactly? #Jan25 http://twitpic.com/4dgf78
44 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Edit:
hindrenaline Hind
@
@Levantzica the Central Bank of Egypt is on fire according to Al Jazeera. It is empty as it's being renovated
35 minutes ago
Vraag me af of dat waar is.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François Fénelon
Omar Kamel
In front of Central Bank in Gomhoreya St. now. NOTHING going on. Huh? #jan25 #Egypt
In front of Central Bank in Gomhoreya St. now. NOTHING going on. Huh? #jan25 #Egypt
~Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.~
Ze zijn niets anders gewend hé....quote:
[..]
Het is grappig maar geeft ook aan dat die mensen het heerlijk vinden om in een teringchaos te wonen en dan bedoel ik dus ook politiek.
Volgens Al Masry al youm is het de Ahli Bank... Waar Gamal Mubarak mede-eigenaar van was/is en rekeningen heeft samen met izjn familie.quote:
Omar Kamel
In front of Central Bank in Gomhoreya St. now. NOTHING going on. Huh? #jan25 #Egypt
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François Fénelon
quote:Al-Masry Al-Youm has obtained documents showing that the Egyptian Exchange issued approximately 80 new codes for former president Hosni Mubarak, his family members and a number of former officials whose assets were ordered frozen.
The codes were registered on 28 February, 17 days after Mubarak stepped down and on the same day the Attorney General decided to freeze the assets owned by Mubarak and his family.
New codes running in serial order from 2186143 to 2186153 belong to Mubarak, his wife Suzanne Saleh Thabet, their sons Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, their respective wives Heidi Mohamed Magdi Rasekh and Khadiga al-Gammal, and children Omar and Farida.
The issuing of these codes violates the law governing the functioning of the stock market, which states that a client must come in person to open an account at a brokerage company, a source from the stock market said.
The source warned that the issuing of new codes may be intended to hide other shady transactions.
A stock market source said the market sent a memorandum to the General Authority for Financial Control and the Attorney General including all suspended codes and all newly issued codes.
However, officials from the stock market have said they are concerned over the issuing of multiple codes for one person and the issuing of new codes, as every citizen is entitled to a single stock market code. The source said brokerage companies should be prosecuted if proven to have created codes in violation of the law.
Eissa Fathi, managing director for a portfolio management company, said only brokerage companies are legally allowed to issue codes, adding that officials whose assets are frozen have been issued new codes.
Fathi added that the new codes were issued while the stock market was in suspension, and wondered, therefore, why the stock market has asked brokerage companies about transactions carried out under these codes.
A brokerage company president, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also said he does not understand why the stock market has sent for information about the new codes if it knows that they were issued while it was suspended.
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers. ~François Fénelon
Video op de site
CNN's Ivan Watson reports on how some young Egyptians are now suffering for raising their voices.
CNN report on Ramy Essam and tortured
Salwa Hosseini, 20, was forced to strip and searched while male Egyptian soldiers watched & took photos, thru 2 open doors and a window.
[ Bericht 19% gewijzigd door yavanna op 26-03-2011 23:50:13 ]
CNN's Ivan Watson reports on how some young Egyptians are now suffering for raising their voices.
CNN report on Ramy Essam and tortured
Salwa Hosseini, 20, was forced to strip and searched while male Egyptian soldiers watched & took photos, thru 2 open doors and a window.
[ Bericht 19% gewijzigd door yavanna op 26-03-2011 23:50:13 ]
~Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.~
