Lara Logan, a CBS News reporter, was sexually assaulted while working in Cairo on Feb. 11. Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesCBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault -- New York Times
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’s government fell in Cairo.
Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” 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. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men.
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My Comment: Organizations like the Committee to Protect Journalists as well as news organizations will need to update their procedures and protocols on how their reporters must cover wars and conflicts .... and if Lara Logan's experience can expedite this more quickly .... kudos to her for then talking about it.
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