{"id":33849,"date":"2012-03-12T13:39:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33849"},"modified":"2012-03-12T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:29:22","slug":"egypt-court-clears-virginity-test-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33849","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Court clears &#8216;virginity test&#8217; doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor accused of carrying out forced &#8220;virginity tests&#8221; on female <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Egypt\" target=\"_blank\">Egyptian<\/a> protesters has <a title=\"BBC: Egypt unrest: Court clears 'virginity test' doctor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-17330798\" target=\"_blank\">been acquitted<\/a> by a military court.\u00a0Ahmed Adel was cleared after\u00a0the judge found contradictions in witness statements. The case was brought by\u00a0<a title=\"UNCUT: Military court hears evidence in Egyptian \u201cvirginity tests\u201d case\" href=\"http:\/\/uncut.indexoncensorship.org\/2012\/02\/egypt-virginity-test-shahira-amin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samira Ibrahim<\/a>, who said the &#8220;tests&#8221; were carried out on female protesters who were detained during\u00a0a protest in Tahrir Square in March 2011. Ibrahim <a title=\"Twitter: Samira Ibrahim\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SamiraIbrahim4\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Twitter<\/a> that\u00a0the verdict had stained the honour of Egypt and she would carry on until she had &#8220;restored Egypt&#8217;s rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor accused of carrying out forced &#8220;virginity tests&#8221; on female Egyptian protesters has been acquitted by a military court.\u00a0Ahmed Adel was cleared after\u00a0the judge found contradictions in witness statements. The case was brought by\u00a0Samira Ibrahim, who said the &#8220;tests&#8221; were carried out on female protesters who were detained during\u00a0a protest in Tahrir Square in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[7376,283,4400,4399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33876,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33849\/revisions\/33876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}