UK CONDUCTED 'VIRGINITY TESTS' ON IMMIGRANTS !!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: http://www.blacklistednews.com/UK_condu ... 0/Y/M.html

May 10, 2011
Source: RawStory

Recently uncovered United Kingdom Home Office documents show that the British government hid how often it subjected female immigrants hoping to enter the country to "virginity tests."

The documents, discovered by Australian legal academics Dr. Marinella Marmo and Dr. Evan Smith, suggest that at least 80 south Asian women underwent "virginity tests" in the late 1970s.

Alex Lyon, a former Labour immigration minister, called for the practice to be stopped in 1975, but the documents show that 73 women were subjected to the tests in New Delhi and nine in Bombay at British embassies between 1976 and 1979. The tests were applied to women coming to Britain to marry British citizens to confirm the their marital status.

Marmo and Smith said UK immigration officers justified the use of "virginity tests" on the stereotype of south Asian women as "submissive, meek and tradition-bound." The officers apparently believed the women were always virgins before they married.

The British government previously acknowledged two "virginity test" cases after The Guardian reported the case of a 35-year-old teacher from India who was forced to undergo a test in 1979.

"There were a lot of machinations to deny or limit what was made public about these cases, which lends credence to the idea that they knew it was something bad, that it was a gross violation of human rights," Smith said.

Recently, Amnesty International condemned the Egyptian military for conducting "virginity tests" on female protesters.

[Scarletmoon1]

Oh, maybe that is why I was deported back to Canada last year...

my bad

[HELWAA]

"

virginity tests"

[BlackVelvet]

Oh, maybe that is why I was deported back to Canada last year...

my bad

[The_Patriot]

black velvet guess you are the lady in Mississippi masala movie and moved to England in the 70's tell us more on what happened that you recall.

[BlackVelvet]

Patriot, is this why you were not able in aad England iska dhiibtid?

[The_Patriot]

Patriot, is this why you were not able in aad England iska dhiibtid?

WTF why not cos every xalimo who broke her virginity will blame the tests

[BlackVelvet]

Don't lie. They took the test and found your cherry had already been popped innit?

[Bulletz]

If they dids tis now every woman would fail the test