Egyptian women to protest against mistreatment by military
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Agitated over the brutal crackdown and mistreatment of women protesters by the Egyptian military, women are preparing for a massive rally here on Tuesday to denounce the atrocities committed by the armed forces.
Women would gather at the iconic Tahrir square in central Cairo, the hub of anti-regime protests during revolution, to express their anger against the treatment meted out to women by the Egyptian armed forces during protests.
Women journalists would also organise a protest near Tahrir square.
Though the number of women participating in the protest named 'She was not stripped but revealed the truth of the SCAF' was not clear but the call which started on Facebook was widely welcomed by many after a clip of a fully veiled woman protester who was dragged and undressed by military police before being brutally beaten found its way onto social media and made headlines this week.
The visual showed an unconscious fair girl lying in her jeans and undergarments on the street. A policeman, who rushed to help her, was also brutally beaten and received a bullet in his knee.
The military officers refused to comment on the incident but said the matter was being investigated by the prosecutor general. The protest is also meant to object to the virginity tests of the women protesters by the SCAF in March just after Mubarak was ousted.
Sexual harassment has allegedly been used systematically by Egypt's security forces against activists since 2005 when demonstrations erupted against proposed constitutional amendments.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced the crackdown on Egyptian women as ‘shocking’ and a ‘disgrace’ to the state after troops were shown ripping off a female protester's clothes.
"This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonors the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people," she said.
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