CAIROMarch 4 (UPI) -- Women's rights activist and co-founder of CODEPINK Medea Benjamin was detained in Egypt on Monday while en route to Gaza to join an international delegation of women, and asserts Egyptian authorities brutally attacked and injured her.
The American citizen was detained by Cairo airport border police and held in a cell overnight before her deportation to Turkey on Tuesday. She described her ordeal to her organization, CODEPINK, after arriving in Istanbul: