According to CNN a general in the Egyptian military, Major Amr Iman...why is he a Major if he's a general..., has admitted that the military carried out "virginity checks" on women protesting in Tahir Square at the beginning of "Arab Spring:"
"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
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)."
...We here at Public Occurrences cannot think of anything by way of learned commentary or pithy observation to write about this at the moment. So we won't write anything.
