In the first 24 hours of the Libyan attack, US B-2s dropped forty-five 2,000-pound bombs. These massive bombs, along with the Cruise missiles launched from British and French planes and ships, all contained depleted uranium (DU) warheads. DU is the ... Read more »
Egyptian Women Protesters Forced to Take ‘Virginity Tests’
Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced 'virginity tests’, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month. After army ... Read more »
Egyptian Women Forced To Take ‘Virginity Tests’
Women in line to vote at 2011 Egyptian constitution referendum. Photo: Mona (CC)
Read more »Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate serious allegations of torture, including forced ‘virginity tests’, inflicted by the army on women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square earlier this month.
After army officers violently cleared the square of protesters on 9 March, at least 18 women were held in military detention. Amnesty International has been told by women protesters that they were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip searches while being photographed by male soldiers, then forced to submit to ‘virginity checks’ and threatened with prostitution charges.
‘Virginity tests’ are a form of torture when they are forced or coerced.
“Forcing women to have ‘virginity tests’ is utterly unacceptable. Its purpose is to degrade women because they are women,” said Amnesty International. “All members of the medical profession must refuse to take part in such…
US-led Strikes Target Libyan City
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Long Strange Journey – an Intelligence Memoir
Tonight, Mike and Mark speak with Patrick G. Eddington about his time inside of the CIA, and his amazing book Long Strange Journey: An Intelligence Memoir , which details his career as a military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1988 t... Read more »
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Joe Biden: War Without Congressional Authorization Should Warrant IMPEACHMENT
http://www.youtube.com/wa... More videos & information: http://www.youtube.com/wa... http://www.youtube.com/wa... http://www.boston.com/new... "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in... Read more »
Rothschild Globalist Killers Pour Depleted Uranium On Libyans In Nuclear War
So what do they know that is so secret? They are all guilty of war crimes knowing they have all authorized the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) against innocent civilians and our own military forces to a level bordering on mass genocide. M... Read more »
