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'Virginity tests' trial adjourned Court adjourns case as requested by defence lawyer for doctor accused of subjecting detained female protesters to 'virginity tests'
A military court has adjourned the trial of an Egyptian army doctor accused of subjecting female protesters to compulsory "virginity tests" to 29 January. Ahmed Adel Mohamed El-Mogy, a 27-year-old conscript, is accused of subjecting seven women, including protester Samira Ibrahim, to "virginity tests" against their will. The Doctors' Syndicate has assigned a lawyer to defend him. The seven women were initially arrested on 9 March, after the military attempted to disperse a sit-in in Cairo's Tahrir Square. They were then taken to C28 military prosecution facility, where they were forced to undergo the test. In a taped account of the incident posted on YouTube, Ibrahim stated that she was taken into a room, told to undress and then subjected to the test by a man dressed in an army uniform. Ibrahim was the only one of the women to file a lawsuit against Egypt's armed forces and ruling military council. On 27 December, the State Council Administrative Court issued a landmark ruling in Ibrahim's favour, outlawing the use of "virginity tests" on female detainees.