"Arab Spring" - Sexual violence against Egypt women protesters an ongoing 'plague'.

"Arab Spring" - Sexual violence against Egypt women protesters an ongoing 'plague'.(BM).Cairo: Sexual violence against women is becoming routine during violent clashes in Egypt, activists said this week, accusing the ruling military junta’s troops and prison authorities of assaulting numerous women during the latest crackdown on pro-democracy protesters earlier this month. The activists have stated publicly that they were abused, intimidated and assaulted while under military detention. The charges added new tension to Egypt’s presidential election campaign, just two weeks before the voting. More than a dozen women were among more than 300 protesters detained following a protest outside the Defense Ministry in Cairo last weekend. In charges that recalled the “virginity tests” last year, rights activist Aida Seif al-Dawla said that female prison guards sexually assaulted some women by inspecting their vaginas under the pretext of searching for drugs. She told the Associated Press that “this is a sexual assault,” activist Seif al-Dawla said. “The women are injured, physically and emotionally.” One of the women arrested and detained by the military, told Bikyamasr.com on condition of anonymity that she is still “in shock” at what happened to her and other girls. “The prison guards and doctors made us strip and they were touching our bodies and our private places as if they controlled us,” she said. “It was horrific and I don’t know what to do now because I can’t tell my family or they will punish me,” she added. Another activist detained, Aya Kamel, went public with her story, telling the parliament’s human rights committee that she was abused during her detention. She told the committee that one soldier hit her with a club on the head, knocking her unconscious for a few seconds, while another tried to remove her head veil, which many conservative Muslim women in Egypt wear. At one military facility, Kamal said soldiers celebrated the arrival of detainees. “They insulted us girls, they opened the windows and tried to reach out to touch our bodies and harass us. We were threatened with sexual assault, and we were threatened that if any one of us opened her mouth, she would be thrown to the soldiers outside, and she knows what would happen to her,” she told the committee. A total of 15 women were detained on May 6 in the forced eviction of the sit-in near the ministry of defense, and military prosecutor ordered 14 of them to be held for 15 days pending investigation. Activists report that around 300 people, including 17 journalists were detained.Hmmmm....... Luckily Obama helped chasing that 'evil dictator' Mubarak.Read the full story here.