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Indonesian Women Police Recruits Face Degrading Virginity Check

Indonesian Women Police Recruits Face Degrading Virginity Check

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Nov 19, 2014
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The Indonesian National Police force female applicants to go through degrading and painful tests to prove their virginity, the Indonesian branch of Human Rights Watch has said. The examination includes an embarrassing, discredited and uncomfortable “two finger test” to determine if a woman’s hymens are intact, according to interviews with recruits who w…

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