Journalist Says She Was Detained,Beaten, Sexually Assaulted In Egypt

Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy describes her assault at the hands of uniformed Egyptian riot police.  reported that she was detained, beaten, and sexually assaulted by Egyptian security forces Wednesday night while reporting on the protests that have gripped Cairo over the past week. ... Mona Eltahawy Reportedly Detained, Sexually Assaulted In Egypt.

On Thursday morning began Eltahawy to describe its sample in a series of twitterring on its Twitter account.
It reported that it had been, is held back for 12 hours through the Ministry of the Interior and the military secret service while which time they been sexually was attacked of five or six men.  5 or 6 felt surrounded me, to have and pricked my breasts, seized my sex zone and lost twitterred I number how many hands tried to received into my pair of pants, "it.  It spent connected hours the eyes before in the end with an apology of military secret service however no explanation released to become for, why it was held back.

Other journalists are thought also, held back become on Wednesday night to be.  Eltahawy wrote finally for the guard on Friday around a young Egyptian feminine blogger, who had decided, a naked photo of itself on its blog in a deed of the resistance.  The 44 year old was born said in harbor to set up, but united lived later in that kingdoms, Saudi Arabia and Israel, that remove in the USA in 2000.

In 2009, the Europaïsche union has appreciates awarded was awarded it its Samir Kassir for press freedom, and last year it the special price of the Anna Lindh base for outstanding contribution to journalism.