Sexual violence against Egypt women ‘goes unpunished’: report

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Sexual violence against Egypt women ‘goes unpunished’: report
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 12:48 EDT

Sexual violence against women has been rife since the 2011 uprising in Egypt, where hundreds of female protesters have been the target of attack with apparent impunity, rights groups said Wednesday.

“Successive Egyptian governments have failed to address violence against women, with serious implications for women’s participation in the political transition of their country,” said a group of rights organisations led by FIDH, the International Federation for Human Rights.

Sexual assaults on women protesters were reported during demonstrations after the 2011 fall of Hosni Mubarak, and then under the military junta which ruled Egypt after him and again during protests against president Mohamed Morsi, they said in a report.

It said 250 cases of sexual violence against women were reported between November 2012 and January 2014, many of them in and around Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square — the site of anti-Mubarak and anti-Morsi protests.