at cnn who are using fake news now as a political weapon against the administration. as wemi told you earlier, acosta was forced to delete a tweet earlier this month after he claimed the president did not visit congressman steve scalise when he was in the hospital. totally fake news in that misguided tweet is one of only many examples of what is now a pattern. acosta s corrosive coverage and bias coverage of the president. sadly, acosta has a pretty extensive history of trashing the administration. isn t he supposed to be objective and fair and balanced, including multiple combative exchanges with sean spicer, and eve than president. whyman so he gets to look good for himself. is he really looking for answers for you, the american people? it s like we re just covering bad reality television.
conservative cultures that place a high value on women s virginity. so you will hear of conservative parts of egypt where a traditional midwife will be in charge of showing or examining whether a bride-to-be is a virgin or not. and there are cases in which some egyptian families have gone to medical authorities to determine whether women are virgins or not in the way that we hear in latin america they have, and also as recently as 1976 in the u.k., where virginity tests were forced on women immigrating from india. so essentially what i m saying is, these are tests that are forced on women by a patriarchal authority to determine something as flimsy as a hyman. so it happens in egypt, in countries that are conservative. and at the end of the day, extremely humiliating to women. and mona, you bring up a good point. you talk about the fact that this was used as a form of sexual assault under the mubarak regime, but now you have the military in charge, and it is also being used in that wa
test is? reporter: it s basically a way to determine whether a woman is a virgin or not, and usually depends on whether a hyman is in place or not, not considering some women are born without. but the state is once more sexually assaulting women in egypt. but this time, it s under the council of the supreme military council, whereas in 2005, it was the state under the guise of the mubarak regime that began to deliberately target female activists and journalists with sexual assault. and the goal of both sexual assaults is to humiliate women, to shame them into silence and basically tell them, go home. is this a common practice in egypt? you know, this morning, i put the question out on twitter and i asked people i know, in egypt, have you guys heard of these virginity tests? and this is a common practice in