live from istanbul, turkey. ivan, i want you to tell us what did the women protesters say to you? >> reporter: well, we spoke with one in particular, a young woman named salaa husseiny, and she's one of 17 women arrested by egyptian military police that cracked down on a protest that took place on march 9th in cairo's famous tahrir square. she said initially they were taken into the famous egyptian museum, which is right in that square, and that's where she was beaten and hit with electric prods and frequently insulted. she was called a whore by her interrogators. that was treatment that about demonstrators experienced at that time on march 9th. we spoke to a male demonstrator who showed us the wounds over his back. he couldn't even walk after that experience. later in the course of events, both men and women were transported to a facility on the