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--- In [email protected], item abu <itemabu@...> wrote: > > Makin kuat Islamnya, makin gila cewek dan makin sering melecehkan cewek. > Itulah Islam. > > > > > >________________________________ > > From: Sunny <ambon@...> > >To: Undisclosed-Recipient@... > >Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 9:11 AM > >Subject: [proletar] Alarming assaults on women in Egypt's Tahrir > > > > > >Â > >http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=1&id=29897 > > > >Alarming assaults on women in Egypt's Tahrir > > > >07/06/2012 > >CAIRO (AP) â" 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 â" 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 â" 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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