Egyptian doctor acquitted over virginity test
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March 12, 2012, Monday
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AN Egyptian military tribunal yesterday acquitted an army doctor of a charge of public obscenity filed by a protester who claimed she was forced to undergo a virginity test while in detention.
The court denied the humiliating tests even took place, despite a ruling by another court and admissions by generals quoted by a leading rights group.
The ruling further infuriated the country's revolutionary youth movements, who have said claims of the virginity tests were the first sign that the generals who took over from deposed President Hosni Mubarak 13 months ago were carrying on his repressive practices.
Samira Ibrahim, one of seven women who said they were forced to undergo examinations to determine if they were virgins while detained by the military a year ago, won a civilian court ruling last year that affirmed the tests were taking place at military jails and ordered they be halted.
Military prosecutors investigating her accusations brought only one individual, Dr Ahmed Adel, to trial, and he was acquitted. The verdict cannot be appealed. The court denied that such tests were carried out.
"No one stained my honor," Ibrahim wrote on her Twitter account after the verdict. "The one that had her honor stained is Egypt. I will carry on until I restore Egypt's rights."
Egypt's official news agency said that Adel was acquitted because the testimonies of the witnesses for the plaintiff conflicted.
The court denied the humiliating tests even took place, despite a ruling by another court and admissions by generals quoted by a leading rights group.
The ruling further infuriated the country's revolutionary youth movements, who have said claims of the virginity tests were the first sign that the generals who took over from deposed President Hosni Mubarak 13 months ago were carrying on his repressive practices.
Samira Ibrahim, one of seven women who said they were forced to undergo examinations to determine if they were virgins while detained by the military a year ago, won a civilian court ruling last year that affirmed the tests were taking place at military jails and ordered they be halted.
Military prosecutors investigating her accusations brought only one individual, Dr Ahmed Adel, to trial, and he was acquitted. The verdict cannot be appealed. The court denied that such tests were carried out.
"No one stained my honor," Ibrahim wrote on her Twitter account after the verdict. "The one that had her honor stained is Egypt. I will carry on until I restore Egypt's rights."
Egypt's official news agency said that Adel was acquitted because the testimonies of the witnesses for the plaintiff conflicted.
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