Egypt's generals: Virginity checks to prove they are sluts

Major General Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, head of Egypt’s military intelligence, reportedly told Amnesty International in June that the military conducted the virginity tests in preemptive self-defense against potential rape allegations. [snip] CNN had previously quoted an anonymous senior military officer who confessed performing virginity checks on arrested female protesters.

"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general said. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs)," said the high ranking officer.

"We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place," the general said. "None of them were [virgins]," he added.