beaten, battered and scarred after egyptian soldiers detained him. the torture took four hours. they removed my clothes, used sticks, metal rods, wire hoses, electrocution and also an officer who would purposely jump in there and land on my face with his legs. reporter: he was one of scores of male protesters detained by this crackdown of security forces in tahrir square on march 9th. troops also arrested at least 17 women who were kept for days at a military detainment center. amnesty international says these quote women protesters were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip-searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to virginity tests. one of these women was this 20-year-old hairdresser named selwa hussany. translator: they made us sign statements declaring whether or not we are virgins.
with hope. he can say anything and i m not afraid. look what happened to his son, nearly a month later, beaten, battered and scarred after egyptian soldiers detained him. the tortured took four hours. they removed my clothes, used sticks, metal rods, wires hoses, electrocution and also an officer who would purposely jump in there and land on my face with his legs. reporter: he was one of scores of protesters detained by this crackdown of security forces in tahrir square march 9th and arrested women kept for days at a military detainment center. these quote women protesters were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip-searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to virginity tests. one of these women was this 20-year-old hairdresser named
reporter: look what happened to him nearly a month later, beaten, batter ed and scarred after egyptian soldiers detained him. the torture took four hours. they removed my clothes, used sticks, metal rods, wire hoses, electrocution and also an officer who would purposely jump in there and land on my face with his legs. reporter: he was one of scores of male protesters detained by this crackdown of security forces in tahrir square on march 9th. troops also arrested at least 17 women who were kept for days at a military detainment center. amnesty international says these quote women protesters were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip-searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to virginity tests. one of these women was this 20-year-old hairdresser named selwa hussany. translator: they made us sign
tahrir square and taken to a military detainment center. some of them, including these women, were subjected to forced virginity tests upon threat of electrocution from egyptian soldiers. these are stunning allegations of human rights abuses that the spokesman for the military and for egypt s ruling military council are denying. sanjay? it s hard to hear and fouad, i know it s not been that much time obviously since the revolution in egypt. but does this surprise you what ivan sa r saying first of all, and what are you i do are going to be the biggest challenges for egypt? i think ivan had a wonderful way of putting it, when he said old habits of tyranny die hard. you have this military regime, which has been in power since 1952, for six decades egypt was ruled in a very authoritarian way. it had a rich democratic
four hours. they removed my clothes. they used sticks, hoses, ropes. a man would jump in the air and land on my face with his legs. reporter: he was one of scores detained during this crackdown in tahrir square on march 9. troops arrested at least 17 women who were kept for days at a military detainment center. amnesty international says these, quote, women protesters were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip searches while being photographed by male soldiers. then forced to submit to virginity tests. one of the women was this 20-year-old hairdresser. translator: they made us sign statements declaring whether or not we are injure vvirgins. reporter: she submitted to the test under threat of electrocution.