The dignity of women detainees in the military prisons was up kept by an Egyptian Court which ruled on Tuesday the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to stop forced virginity tests on detained females either inside the barracks or in the military prisons, the state media reported.

The present verdict is after country wide protests by activists and bloggers for abandoning the tests, which were just means of punishment for the women detainees. The court made the decision after a case was brought by protester Samira Ibrahim. She complained of being forced to undergo a virginity test by an army doctor during her imprisonment.

In a quick response to the ruling, chief of the military court Adel Mursy said that the ruling could not be applied since the military did not order to enforce virginity tests and such tests should be individual acts that required investigation. But an army member justified the virginity tests in June by saying that the tests were meant to protect the military from possible allegations of rape, in future.