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Mob attacks women at Egypt anti-sex assault rally
Associated Press ^ | June 8, 2012 | AYA BATRAWY

Posted on 06/08/2012 2:46:03 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

CAIRO (AP) -- A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women holding a march demanding an end to sexual harassment Friday, with the attackers overwhelming the male guardians and groping and molesting several of the female marchers in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

From the ferocity of the assault, some of the victims said it appeared to have been an organized attempt to drive women out of demonstrations and trample on the pro-democracy protest movement.

The attack follows smaller scale assaults on women this week in Tahrir, the epicenter of the uprising that forced Hosni Mubarak to step down last year.

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Time for the “Miss Me Yet?” Mubarak poster?


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