Egyptian Cabinet Quits Over Military Crackdown

(Hannah Allam and Mohannad Sabry)   Egypt’s civilian Cabinet resigned Monday to protest the military’s harsh crackdown on demonstrators as an uprising against the ruling military council swelled into a third day of running battles in downtown Cairo. Analysts openly debated whether the military council could survive the rising tide of protest, which bore striking resemblance [...]

Virginity tests forced on female Egyptian protesters

Although Egypt’s popular revolution was inspiring because, as Judy Molland wrote a few weeks ago, women were a “strong, defiant force” in the revolt that toppled the Mubarak regime, some information is now filtering out that makes it clear that women protesters were still subject to some fairly horrible, sexist treatment. Amnesty International is now [...]