Among those Egyptians arrested at a March 9 Tahrir square protest were eighteen women who now claim that they were "beaten, subjected to electric shocks, forced to undress while soldiers took photographs of them and forced to take a "virginity test", amid threats of being charged with prostitution".
According to the Amnesty International report, one of the women was a journalist who was freed a number of hours later, while the other 17 women were transferred to the El Heikstep military prison. The 17 other women appeared before a military court and were released two days later, saying that "a number of them were given a one-year suspended prison sentence".
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