216:"As soon as I arrived at the military prison, I saw a picture of the deposed President Hosni Mubarak inside the prison, and then a soldier named Ibrahim asked me if I was pregnant. I denied it and told him that I'm a virgin, but he said: "We will see that". We were subjected to tests in a room, in which he told me: "We will find there was a female soldier named Azza, who wore a black veil, and inspected the women by stripping their clothes, so that the girl must be completely naked, despite the presence of male soldiers in the prison, and even though the room's window was open. I felt and still feel insulted by being forced to strip in the midst of the soldiers, who were looking at and examining the features of my body, especially since I was also forced to bend and stretch. It was a terrible feeling, even today I am suffering from what happened. Afterwards, the warden came and spoke to me, at a time when the girls were naked inside the room, and I told him this is not right, because men are not supposed to look at women's nakedness. Rather, it is forbidden for a woman to see a woman's nakedness in Islam, so his response was extremely severe: If you refused to be searched by Madame Azza, I will send a soldier to search you, and I had to let the woman to search me instead of a male soldier. The woman searched us very carefully. She was loosening our hair, and she was wearing pants with a belt. I was surprised that the woman "Azza" was calling for a soldier, and she asked him to enter the room, and she asked him: "Should I remove the belt or not?", as the girls remained completely naked. This situation was very difficult for us. After that, a doctor entered the room and asked us who were virgins and who were married, and we signed and fingerprinted a list containing our names. A soldier named Ibrahim entered, and threatened us, saying: “Who will say that she is a virgin while she is not, I will electrify her and hit her.” And then uttered another term, suggesting that he will rape her. But we were forced into submission, given that we received threats of beatings, electrification, and torture. The room in which the tests were conducted for us was carried out by a doctor, and the female soldier and the officer. I was terrified of what was happening, and I was wondering: Why all this, why are they doing this to us? After the doctor examined me and made sure that I am a virgin, and that the hymen is present, he wrote that in his report, and I signed it."
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240:"I was arrested in Tahrir Square, My hands were cuffed. I was beaten and insulted. After our arrest, 18 other women were taken to the Egyptian Museum, where they were also handcuffed, beaten with sticks, and sprayed with water hoses. They were given electric shocks to their breasts and legs, and they were described as “prostitutes". I was able to see and hear the other detained women being tortured with electric shocks throughout their detention in the museum. I was released after several hours, along with four male journalists as well, but the other seventeen women were transferred to the military prison in Heikstep."
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