EL CAIRO (Reuters) – an Egyptian military court pleaded not guilty Sunday to a physician of the army accused of carrying out forced a virginity test to an detained during the demonstrations last year, said a judicial source, in a case that has sparked anger against the generals in power.
Activist Samira Ibrahim, who defied the taboo in this conservative Muslim country to bring its case, said she was forced to undergo a virginity test in March of last year, after being arrested during a demonstration in Cairo’s Tahrir square.
The case of Ibrahim and other similar unleashed criticism the generals made control of Egypt after that President Hosni Mubarak left power on February 11, 2011 for a popular uprising.
“The military doctor Ahmed Adel was convicted not for virginity tests by the conflicting accounts of witnesses”, said the military judicial source, who asked not to be identified.
State News Agency confirmed the sentence, and added that the stories of three witnesses countered with a quarter.
Ibrahim declined to make statements to Reuters after the judgment.
. On the outside of the Court, about 30 people gathered, shouting: “Down the military mandate” and “We demand dignity and change.” “Instead, stripped to our girls in Tahrir”.
The controversy over virginity tests gained strength after that last year CNN tell a General who said they were carried out to show that women were not virgins when they were arrested, so thus then not they could say that they were raped while in custody.
Later, a military official denied that such statements were made.
Ibrahim was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment suspended for insulting the authorities, participate in an illegal Assembly and violating curfew.
In December, a civil court issued an order forbidding the Army carry out this practice, and a judicial military officer said that cases of alleged forced virginity testing had been transferred to the military Supreme Court.
