JAKARTA: The Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Indonesia's national police to halt “discriminatory” virginity tests for women applying to join the force in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country.
The rights group said yesterday that women applicants are required to be both unmarried and virgins, and the virginity test is still widely used despite the insistence of some senior police officials that the practice has been discontinued.
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