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I was assaulted, u.s. tear gas was still being shipped to egypt even though we know it was suffocating people by the hundreds in tahrir square. not just, that the u.s. administration gives the u.s. military $1.8 billion in aid every year comprising 40% of the military's budget. that military junta that is new oppressing us and beating us and sexually violating us, in ways worse than mubarak, is being funded by the united states and this must stop. the reason the revolution in egypt began is to stop this kind of brutality. the sexual violence is shameful. mubarak used sexual celebs against fema...

basketball coach bernie fine last night. a third man now says that fine molested him when he was a boy. also in a phone recording from nine years ago aired on espn fine's wife, laurie, says she knew, quote, everything that went on. we're expecting to hear from a family of a florida a&m student who died in a suspected hazing incident. they plan to announce a lawsuit against the school. robert champion was a drum major with the university's award winning marching band. 30 band members were suspended this semester because of possible involvement in hazing. big day for democracy in e...

Watching the backside of the bed. i think they were there to be witnesses. >> i encourage you to go to c cnn.com to watch ivan's entire report. mowna, journalist and columnist, and i want you to do me a favor and take off the journalistic hat, and talk to me as an egyptian female and talk to me about the visceral reaction to the charges? >> well, i'm sickened and relieved that some general has admitted to it, but ironically and horrifically, the way he has justified this off of the record has confirmed to your journalists that the so-called virginity tests happened justified them by saying sho...

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...

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...