THE NEW YORK TIMES: These women crossed paths with the Egyptian justice system./ Each said she was sexually abused by the authorities.
These women were either arrested for speaking out or had gone to the authorities to report a crime.
In each case, they said, they were sexually abused by the officials sworn to protect them.
Whether they are victims of crimes, witnesses or the accused, women who encounter Egypt’s criminal justice system risk being taken aside and stripped, groped, prodded and violated.
This treatment is illegal, but in this authoritarian and patriarchal country, there is almost nothing they can do about it.
The women in these videos, speaking publicly for the first time, described sexual violations that they said were committed in police stations, prisons and hospitals. » | By Mona El-Naggar, Yousur Al-Hlou and Aliza Aufrichtig | Monday, July 5, 2021
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