9/3/2011: The violent dispersal of Tahrir Square, women protesters arrested in Tahrir Square were tortured by army personnel and subjected to "virginity tests." 23/6/2011: Human rights lawyers representing Samira Ibrahim filed a complaint for the first time with the Military Prosecution Office[1] 27/6/2011: Abdel Fattah El-Sisi - who was the head of Egyptian Military Intelligence at the time - admitted that "virginity tests" had been conducted for arrested demonstrators by military personnel, justifying this by protecting the army from possible accusations of rape. He is the first known Egyptian military official to acknowledge the existence of this practice, which other officers have acknowledged, such as Major General Hussein Othman, Major General Hassan Al-Ruwaini and Major General Hassan Al-Attar, providing the same justification for its practice.[2][3][4] 27/12/2011: The Administrative Court ruled accepted the lawsuit filed by Samira Ibrahim, and the court obliged Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawy, President of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and Commander of the Military Region, to pay the case, declaring that revealing virginity is a violation of the sanctity of female bodies and an aggression on their dignity, and demanded that the Military Council not repeat it.[5][6][7] 11/3/2012: The court ruled the acquittal of Ahmed Adel, a recruited doctor in the Egyptian army who conducted the operation to examine the activists' virginity.[8][9]