What Does Arresting Mean?

I have read an article about three American students who were arrested in Egypt. They were going to be released and freed. Another female journalist was also arrested, and she was released as well.

However, what happened to her when she was in detention? Polices touched her breasts and reach hands to her genital area. She does not remember how many hands were reaching her. She was surrounded by polices, and was sexually treated. Her detention was for 12 hours. How quickly do the polices begin such an action? She was transferred to military during the detention. Therefore, one can assume that her detention at the police was not long as 12 hours. Maybe 4 hours, 6 hours, 10 hours...I don't know. But, I think '12 hours' is short enough to claim my opinion.

Is it kind of a law to sexually treat arrested females? No way, but I don't know the reality.

Anyway, this is my astonishment. How quickly and easily can humans do this? The polices seem to be wild animals with costume.

11/24/11 Egypt Orders 3 American Students Released, and Journalist Is Assaulted in Detention (New York Times)

Egypt Orders 3 American Students Released, and Journalist Is Assaulted in Detention

By ANTHONY SHADID

Published: November 24, 2011

Egyptian court ordered the release of three American students. The students were arrested during their protests in Cairo's landmark Tahrir Square. A prominent documentary filmmaker, Jehane Noujaim, was also arrested. The students had been during a semester-long study abroad program in the American University in Cairo.

However, that the students had been freed is unclear because there was no immediate confirmation. Interior Ministry officials said that the students just need to be processed through Egypt's court system.

The Egyptian-American journalist, Mona Eltahawy, who was arrested, was freed. However, she was so badly treated:

On her Twitter account, she wrote, “5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers.” She said the beating and assault stopped once she was transferred from the police to the military, though military interrogators kept her blindfolded for hours. (New York Times)

Eltahawy's accusation, according to a military official in Cairo, Col. Islam Jaffar:

“She complained to me that she was beaten and sexually assaulted by Central Security Forces,” Mr. Jaffar said. “But what did she expect would happen? She was in the middle of the streets, in the midst of clashes, with no press card or form of ID. The press center had not given her permission to be in the streets as a journalist. The country is in a sensitive situation. We are under threat. She could be a spy for all we know.”

The group's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator claimed:

“Filming is not a crime, and authorities must release Noujaim immediately,Tte military and the police must stop using physical violence and detention to silence or intimidate journalists.”

10/26/11 Officers Get 7 Years for Killing That Helped Inspire Egypt’s Revolt (New York Times)

Officers Get 7 Years for Killing That Helped Inspire Egypt’s Revolt

By HEBA AFIFY

Published: October 26, 2011

In Cairo, Egypt, two police officers were sentenced to seven years in prison because their killing of 28-old man is seen to have caused a revolt. Their killing set off the Egyptian revolution*1.

“About 40 protesters marched through downtown Cairo in the early evening, shouting chants against the ruling military council, which is increasingly seen as thwarting democratic changes and trying to preserve vestiges of the old government.” (New York Times)

*1 Links to an article published on February 5, 2011.