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consider sexual assault and torture. a senior egyptian general tells cnn that the tests were done on women arrested at a demonstration on march 9th. about a month after president hosni mubarak s resignation. egypt s military initially denied the allegations which first arose in an amnesty international report. prior to the virginity tests, the women were allegedly given electric shocks, strip searched, threatened with prostitution charges. our ivan watson has reported extensively on the alleged abuse of protesters. he is joining us from istanbul, turkey. ivan, tell us what the women protesters said to you. reporter: well, we spoke with one of these women in particular, a young woman. she had been in cairo s emblematic tahrir square on march 9th when a demonstration was broken up. a number of the protesters were dragged into the egyptian

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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

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egyptian military through our cairo bureau today. officially a general there denies that any type of virg virginity test ever took place on march 9th. suzanne? ivan, i understand as well the allegations of sexual abuse and sexual assault is not just does not just pertain to women but also to men as well. are you aware of that? reporter: well, i mean, at that time, there was an awful lot of crackdown going on. this was going into april. there would be demonstrations taking place, and the military is in charge of the country, and their police were very heavy handed. i remember talking to two men who just emerged from the state tv headquarters. they said they d been pulled in there and repeatedly beaten and subjected to electric shocks on their testicles by military police, and they were still bleeding from some of the wounds that they got in their faces.

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taking on islamic militants who have overrun a coastal town. it s a case eerily similar to the one against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. an egyptian businessman could be arraigned in new york today, charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. 74-year-old mahmoud abdel salam omar is accused of groping a maid at the pierre luxury hotel. she says she went to the room at omar s request to drop off tissues. call it a bin laden bounce. strong performances on national security and international relations are driving president obama s overall poll numbers even higher. a new cnn opinion research survey finds that 54% approve of the job he is doing. that is up six percentage points since early april. when are you planning to announce you ll run for president? what do you think the odds are you ll run? are you going to run? that is the question. there is no public schedule, but sarah palin s bus tour seems to be headed for philadelphia today. now palin v

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outskirts of cairo, and there throughout what sounded like a truly hellish night, the women were strip searched, at some points photographed by men, and then subjected to what this one woman described as a virginity test. take a listen to what she had to say to us in march. translator: they made us sign statements declaring whether or not we are virgins. during the test no one was standing were standing behind us and watching the back side of the bed. i think we were there to be witnesses. so you can just imagine how horrific this experience must have been and how hard it was to come forward and speak about this, suzanne, in a conservative society on camera and tell this story around the world last march. we ve communicated with the

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