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Are alarming signs of abuse from authorities. you spoke to a woman today who said she was forced to undergo a virginity test and spoke to men who were electrocuted and beaten. this is in egypt. how difficult is it going to be for egypt to shed this identity as a security state? >> reporter: it seems like the old tactics of oppression and brutality die hard. because i'm hearing about a pattern from activists and protesters here of real brutal methods, sinister methods being used by the army that is out on the streets of the egyptian capital. just this morning, sanjay, i talked to two men who ha...

By the security forces against e demonstrators. against the egyptian citizens. i just talked to two mean participatedn a small protest outside the state television headquarters. they were detained by egyptian soldiers taken inside the building. beaten and subjected to electric shocks to their groins. they showed me cuts on their arms fromha handcuffs, cuts on their heads and face. i talked to another young woman. a 20-year-old hairdresser who was detained on march 9th at a protest and subjected at a military detainment center, she says, to a virginity test, in addition to also being tasered an...

Representatives of the military state. moving on to -- >> that sounds like a very serious setback. that sounds like a very serious setback for the people there in egypt who have certainly hoped for revolutionary change. >> reporter: yeah. the concerns about the detentions of activists out in the streets, we're hearing increasingly about this. people who i interviewed in tahrir square a month and a half ago before the fall of hosni mubarak or immediately afterwards in that burst of idealism and hope, one of them subjected to gruesome beatings inside the walls of the egyptian museum after a crac...

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 for...