By the end of the night, Egyptian state media had reported that three women with “grave injuries” had testified to prosecutors about their assaults and would be examined by forensic doctors, and a fourth woman was in a hospital “in a critical condition.” Other women had declined to file complaints, the state newspaper Al Ahram reported.
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Rights advocates have been skeptical of Mr. Sisi regarding sexual assault issues ever since he first drew public attention in 2011 as an army general defending the military’s imposition of forced “virginity tests” on female detainees. “The virginity test procedure was done to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations,” Mr. Sisi, then the chief of military intelligence, said in April 2011, implying that only virgins could be victims of rape.
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Rights advocates have been skeptical of Mr. Sisi regarding sexual assault issues ever since he first drew public attention in 2011 as an army general defending the military’s imposition of forced “virginity tests” on female detainees. “The virginity test procedure was done to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations,” Mr. Sisi, then the chief of military intelligence, said in April 2011, implying that only virgins could be victims of rape.
