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>________________________________ > From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:11 AM >Subject: [proletar] Alarming assaults on women in Egypt's Tahrir > > > >http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29897 > >Alarming assaults on women in Egypt's Tahrir > >07/06/2012 >CAIRO (AP) — Her screams were not drowned out by the clamor of the crazed mob >of nearly 200 men around her. An endless number of hands reached toward the >woman in the red shirt in an assault scene that lasted less than 15 minutes >but felt more like an hour. > >She was pushed by the sea of men for about a block into a side street from >Tahrir Square. Many of the men were trying to break up the frenzy, but it was >impossible to tell who was helping and who was assaulting. Pushed against the >wall, the unknown woman's head finally disappeared. Her screams grew fainter, >then stopped. Her slender tall frame had clearly given way. She apparently had >passed out. > >The helping hands finally splashed the attackers with bottles of water to >chase them away. > >The assault late Tuesday was witnessed by an Associated Press reporter who was >almost overwhelmed by the crowd herself and had to be pulled to safety by men >who ferried her out of the melee in an open Jeep. > >Reports of assaults on women in Tahrir, the epicenter of the uprising that >forced Hosni Mubarak to step down last year, have been on the rise with a new >round of mass protests to denounce a mixed verdict against the ousted leader >and his sons in a trial last week. > >The late Tuesday assault was the last straw for many. Protesters and activists >met Wednesday to organize a campaign to prevent sexual harassment in the >square. They recognize it is part of a bigger social problem that has largely >gone unpunished in Egypt. But the phenomenon is trampling on their dream of >creating in Tahrir a micro-model of a state that respects civil liberties and >civic responsibility, which they had hoped would emerge after Mubarak's ouster. > >"Enough is enough," said Abdel-Fatah Mahmoud, a 22-year-old engineering >student, who met Wednesday with friends to organize patrols of the square in >an effort to deter attacks against women. "It has gone overboard. No matter >what is behind this, it is unacceptable. It shouldn't be happening on our >streets let alone Tahrir." > >No official numbers exist for attacks on women in the square because police do >not go near the area, and women rarely report such incidents. But activists >and protesters have reported a number of particularly violent assaults on >women in the past week. Many suspect such assaults are organized by opponents >of the protests to weaken the spirit of the protesters and drive people away. > >Mahmoud said two of his female friends were cornered Monday and pushed into a >small passageway by a group of men in the same area where the woman in the red >shirt was assaulted. One was groped while the other was seriously assaulted, >Mahmoud said, refusing to divulge specifics other than to insist she wasn't >raped. > >Mona Seif, a well-known activist who has been trying to promote awareness >about the problem, said Wednesday she was told about three different incidents >in the past five days, including two that were violent. In one incident, the >attackers ripped the woman's clothes off and trampled on her companions, she >said. > >Women, who participated in the 18-day uprising that ended with Mubarak's Feb. >11, 2011 ouster as leading activists, protesters, medics and even fighters to >ward off attacks by security agents or affiliated thugs on Tahrir, have found >themselves facing the same groping and assaults that have long plagued Egypt's >streets during subsequent protests in the square. > >Women also have been targeted in recent crackdowns on protesters by military >and security troops, a practice commonly used by Mubarak security that grew >even more aggressive in the days following his ouster. In a defining image of >the post-Mubarak state violence against women, troops were captured on video >stomping with their boots on the bare chest of a woman, with only her blue bra >showing, as other troops pulled her by the arms across the ground. > >A 2008 report by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights says two-thirds of >women in Egypt experienced sexual harassment on a daily basis. A string of >mass assaults on women in 2006 during the Muslim feast following the holy >month of Ramadan prompted police to increase the number of patrols to combat >it but legislation providing punishment was never passed. > >"If you know you can get away with sexual harassment and assault, then there >is an overall impunity," Human Rights Watch researcher Heba Morayef said. > >The case is more paradoxical in Tahrir, which has come to symbolize the >revolution, but has lost its original luster among Egyptians weary of more >than a year of turmoil. > >Women say they briefly experienced a "new Egypt," with strict social customs >casually cast aside during the initial 18-day uprising — at least among the >protesters who turned the square into a protected zone. But that image was >marred when Lara Logan, a U.S. correspondent for CBS television, was sexually >assaulted by a frenzied mob in Tahrir on the day Mubarak stepped down, when >hundreds of thousands of Egyptians came to the square to celebrate. > >The post-Mubarak political reality for women also has deteriorated. They have >lost political ground in the 16 months since Mubarak's ouster — even winning >fewer seats in parliament in the first free and fair elections in decades. The >508-member parliament has only eight female legislators, a sharp drop from the >more than 60 in the 2010 parliament thanks to a Mubarak-era quota. Women's >rights groups also fear the growing power of Islamist groups will lead to new >restrictions. > >Activists have no idea what finally happened to the woman in the red shirt. >But they have been alarmed by the rise in violent attacks on women, which has >chipped away at efforts to project the square as a utopia free of >discrimination and violence. > >Seif said there is a responsibility inside the square. > >"I think it is getting worse because people don't want to acknowledge it is >happening or do something to reduce it," said Seif. "It is our job to put an >end to it, at least in Tahrir." > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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