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Samira Ibrahim ( ar, سميرة إبراهيم, ) (born c. 1987) is an Egyptian activist who came to prominence during the Egyptian revolution.


Tahrir sit-in and aftermath

On March 9, 2011, she participated in a sit-in at
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in
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. The military violently dispersed protest participants, and Samira and other women were beaten, given electric shocks,
strip search A strip search is a practice of searching a person for weapons or other contraband suspected of being hidden on their body or inside their clothing, and not found by performing a frisk search, but by requiring the person to remove some or al ...
ed, and videotaped by the soldiers. They were also subjected to
virginity test A virginity test is the practice and process of determining whether a girl or woman is a virgin; i.e., to determine that she has never engaged in, or been subjected to, sexual intercourse. The test typically involves a check for the presence of an ...
s. The tests were allegedly carried out to protect the soldiers from claims of rape. After succeeding in placing the case in front of a civilian court, a court order was issued in December 2011 to stop the practice of “virginity tests”. However, in March 2012, a
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exonerated Dr. Adel El Mogy from charges laid in connection with the virginity testing of Ibrahim. Ibrahim vowed to take her case to the international courts.


2013 Twitter allegations

In early March 2013, Ibrahim came under criticism after Samuel Tadros, writing in ''
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'', accused her of posting anti-Semitic and
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statements on her
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account. These statements included quoting
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, writing: "I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler.” In reaction to a suicide bombing of a bus of Israelis in Bulgaria, she wrote "Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.” In 2012 on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, she tweeted "Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning". The American State Department subsequently announced that it will not be giving the ''International Women of Courage Award'' to her in light of these comments. Initially, Ibrahim claimed that her Twitter account had been "previously stolen" and that "any tweet on racism and hatred is not me”. However, she later stated "I refuse to apologize to the
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lobby in America regarding my previous anti-Zionist statements under pressure from American government therefore they withdrew the award." The U.S. State Department later stated that Ibrahim had since left the United States to return to Egypt. On March 8, 2013, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department stated that "Upon further review, the department has decided not to present her with the award" as American officials "didn't consider some of the public statements that she had made appropriate. They didn't comport with our values" while adding that "There were obviously some problems in our review process, and we're going to do some forensics on how that happened."


Awards and recognitions

* Rank 20, 2012 Time 100


See also

* Human rights in Egypt under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ibrahim, Samira 1987 births Living people Egyptian feminists Egyptian women's rights activists Feminist bloggers Proponents of Islamic feminism People of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 Victims of human rights abuses Violence against women in Egypt 20th-century Egyptian women 20th-century Egyptian people 21st-century Egyptian women 21st-century Egyptian people Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)