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Yet another alleged sexual assault case against high power international banker and again the alleged victim is a maid at a luxury hotel in new york city. police arrested a 74-year-old egyptian man, the former chairman of a major bank. we're going to talk to deb as she learns more about what happened the moments before that alleged sexual assault. but now to a pretty stunning claim about what egypt's government was doing during some of the violent uprising. crews performing virginity tests on female protesters after they were arrested. the interrogations included strip searches, electric sho...

Journalist the army had conducted so-called virginity tests. >> these tests were carried out, he said, because the military didn't want to be accused of sexually assaulting the girls. >> reporter: the egyptian general defends the practice telling them that these women were not decent girls because they had camped out with male protesters. >> turning now to zooes. are the media obsessing over sarah palin and ignoring a republican front-runner? in today's strategy session, cnn political contributor and democratic strategist donna brazile and cnn.com contributor david fromm. >> let me say that a ...

Avandia. >> sanjay, just to play devil's advocate here for the fda, if you go back a few years, they were under enormous criticism for not approving drugs fast enough. and the news media in this case, our profession, really took after them, because basically accusing the agency of withholding life-saving medications from the public. and nothing could have been further from the truth. but the fda got burned during those years very badly. coming up, in the 3:00 p.m. eastern hour of "newsroom," brooke baldwin will have part two of the conversation, focusing on clinical trials overseas. and co...

Would like to see. so this needs to be a call for reform and that is where sepp blatter comes in. he needs to take the lead on that. if he's not part of the problem, which is lot of people believe he isn't, he still needs to take a stand and make a direct call for change. >> pedo, thanks a lot. >> we want to take you back to a disturbing story we reported out of egypt. the treatment of female protesters detained during the anti-government uprising. more than a dozen women say they had been subjected to beatings and electric shocks and that they were forced to undergo so-called virginity tests....

They were demonstrating in tahrir square around march the 9th, and they were dragged off by the egyptian military. here's what the women say happened to them. they say they were beaten. they were given electric shocks. they were threatened with prostitution charges. and then they were given these so-called virginity tests after being strip searched as well. listen to what woman had to say, carol. >> translator: they made us sign statements declaring whether or not we were virgins. during the test, no one was standing except for a woman and a male doctor. six soldiers were standing behind us an...