CAIRO — Activists and bloggers are pressing Egypt's military rulers to investigate growing accusations of abuses against protesters, including claims that soldiers subjected female detainees to so-called "virginity tests." Bloggers said they would hold a day of online protest Wednesday to voice their outrage. Amnesty International raised the accusations of virginity tests in a May report. It said 18 female protesters held in military detention after a March 9 rally in Cairo reported that they were threatened with prostitution charges and forced to undergo virginity tests. The women also said they were tortured, beaten, and given electric shocks. A senior general, who asked not to be identified, told CNN that the virginity tests had been carried out. "The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general said, according to the broadcaster. "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)." "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 added. "None of them were."
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The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took control of the country from ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February, has come under heavy criticism from the youth protest movement, which is upset at the pace of reforms that they hope will lead Egypt to democracy. Since Mubarak's fall on Feb. 11, the military has led crackdowns on peaceful protests, and critics accuse it of failing to restore security in the streets or launch serious national dialogue on a clear path forward for Egypt. The council says it will return the country to civilian rule after elections later this year, but some Egyptians fear the revolution that began on Jan. 25 has replaced the autocratic Mubarak with a military dictatorship. They point to what they say are attempts by the council to make any criticism of the military an untouchable taboo. On Tuesday, the military prosecutor questioned a prominent blogger, Hossam al-Hamalawy, after he criticized the ruling military council in a TV talk show.

Were they not the ones that invited trouble by opting for military solution to send mubarak packing ? abeg they should face anything that happen to them.

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Were they not the ones that invited trouble by opting for military solution to send mubarak packing ? abeg they should face anything that happen to them.

Be careful what you wish for right??

IMO,though I supported the move to have Mubarak vacate office as it's undemocratic for him to have been there for so long,but judging from how his former boss was assasinated right in his presence,with himself escaping with his own life by the whiskers,one could understand some of the harsh measures he adopted plus the fact that he had been a very strong stabilising factor in the very volatile middle east/arab politics,especially as it pertains to the relationship between Israel and the Arab states.So it amounted to kicking a fallen man in the ribs,when the protesters mostly called for the outright imprisonment without trial of Mubarak and family for financial offences,before sanity prevailed and the man and his family were now required to stand trial first.