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Southeast Asia
Group calls for Indonesian forces to stop virginity tests
2017-11-22
[ARABNEWS] Indonesia’s military and police continue to perform abusive virginity tests on female recruits three years after the World Health Organization declared they had no scientific validity, an international human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
group said Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch said that senior Indonesian police and military officers have told it that security forces still impose the "cruel and discriminatory tests," which are carried out under the guise of psychological examinations for mental health and morality reasons.

"The Indonesian government’s continuing tolerance for abusive ’virginity tests’ by the security forces reflects an appalling lack of political will to protect the rights of Indonesian women," said Nisha Varia, women’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.

The group called for President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to order the national police chief and military commander to ban the practice.

The testing includes the invasive "two-finger test" to determine whether female applicants’ hymens are intact, which WHO in its 2014 clinical guidelines for health care of sexually abused women said lacks any scientific basis.

Human Rights Watch said it found that applicants who were deemed to have "failed" the test were not necessarily penalized but all of the women it spoke with described the test as painful, embarrassing, and traumatic.
Posted by:Fred

#2  As funny as a two fingered prostate exam.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-11-22 10:05  

#1  "Ok, sir. I tested her to make sure she was a virgin."

"And what were the results, Mohamhead?"

"Well, if she was before then she isn't now."

"High five!"
Posted by: gorb   2017-11-22 01:02  

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