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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:24 PM Jun 2014

Egypt arrests seven over Tahrir Square sexual assaults

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27762144
BBC News - Middle East
9 June 2014
Egypt arrests seven over Tahrir Square sexual assaults

Seven men have been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting women at Sunday's celebrations for the inauguration of Egypt's new president.

The arrests come amid growing outrage over a graphic video that appears to show a woman being stripped naked and attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square...

...There was also growing anger on Monday over another video clip of comments by a female anchor on a private TV channel, al-Tahrir.

When told about the reports of sexual assaults in Tahrir Square on Sunday, she laughs and says: "It's because they are happy."

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Mon Jun 9, 2014, 06:28 PM

Jun 2014

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/09/world/egypt-mob-attacks-women/
Mob sex assaults on women overshadow Egyptian inauguration
By Salma Abdelaziz, CNN
updated 6:03 PM EDT, Mon June 9, 2014

(CNN) -- Uniformed Egyptian police pull a woman in nothing but her underclothes from a frenzied mob.

"Get back boy! Get back!" the officers say as one lifts his pistol into the air.

Large patches of skin on the victim appear bloodied and raw as she struggles to walk toward a police van with hordes of men still fighting for a handful of her body.

Moments later, she falls to the ground, naked. Police carry her into the vehicle, seemingly incapable of thwarting the crowd....

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