Virginity Checks on Female Protesters



(Cairo, Egypt) A senior Egyptian general who asked not to be identified has confirmed that virginity checks were performed on female demonstrators during the protests in March.

It's alleged that the females were arrested, beaten, given electric shocks, stripped, searched, threatened with prostitution charges. Then they were splayed out and given a virginity check.

"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)."

The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn't 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)."

To prove that they are not virgins, eh? And guess what? None were! Yeah, that's the ticket.