[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Egyptian women have poured on to the streets in the capital city of Cairo to protest the security forces' brutal crackdown on female demonstrators.The protest took place in the landmark Liberation (Tahrir) Square on Tuesday, days after army soldiers harshly beat a woman and ripped off her clothing while dragging her along the ground during a demonstration in the square.
Released footage and images of the half-naked female protester has sparked outrage among Egyptians.
"Our honor is a red line," the women demonstrators shouted while gathering in the square, which has been the site of deadly festivities between Egyptian military forces and protesters since Friday.
"They know that people who don't care about their own lives they care about their mother, wife and sister. So they wanted to humiliate the whole Egyptian people by humiliating women because they know it's very sensitive," said a demonstrator, referring to the humiliating conduct of security forces toward female protesters.
They also rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, calling him a traitor.
"[The ruling generals] have to go, they are traitors," the protesters said.
The Egyptian military's violence against protesters in the past five days has left at least 14 people dead and hundreds more injured, according to the country's health ministry.
The demonstrators call on the junta to immediately transfer power to a civilian government nearly one year after the country's revolution toppled former dictator Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...