In February, CBS, after learning that other media were asking questions about the incident, said that its correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.<\/p>\n
The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak\u2019s government fell in Cairo.<\/p>\n Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for \u201c60 Minutes\u201d on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. \u201cFor an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,\u201d Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack lasted for about 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.<\/p>\n ..Until now the only public comment about the assault came four days after it took place, when Ms. Logan was still in the hospital. She and Mr. Fager drafted a short statement that she had \u201csuffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.\u201d<\/p>\n That statement, Ms. Logan said, \u201cdidn\u2019t leave me to carry the burden alone, like my dirty little secret, something that I had to be ashamed of.\u201d<\/p>\n …As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian colleagues who were accompanying the camera crew heard men nearby talking about wanting to take Ms. Logan\u2019s pants off. She said: \u201cOur local people with us said, \u2018We\u2019ve gotta get out of here.\u2019 That was literally the moment the mob set on me.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Butler, Ms. Logan\u2019s producer, Max McClellan, and two locally hired drivers were \u201chelpless,\u201d Mr. Fager said, \u201cbecause the mob was just so powerful.\u201d <\/p>\n …\u201cMy clothes were torn to pieces,\u201d Ms. Logan said.<\/p>\n She declined to go into more detail about the assault but said: \u201cWhat really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In February, CBS, after learning that other media were asking questions about the incident, said that its correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The New York Times reports: Lara Logan … Continue reading