The situation has settled into a peaceful standoff that has not involved the center's 27 female detainees, according to lawyers and agency officials.

Male and female detainees were regularly threatened with rape.

The book also said a female officer should stand by a female detainee during medical examinations.

A Cairo court has ordered forced virginity tests on female detainees in military prisons to be stopped.

The female detainees were reportedly prevented from eating, praying, and contacting their lawyers or families.

It was to provide, I was told, an extra wing for female detainees.

Instead, only female detainees will be housed there.

More than 60 per cent of female detainees in England and Wales attended.

All female detainees are placed in the women's unit.

In one incident, investigators said, men's underwear with question marks drawn on the crotches was given to female detainees to wear.