{"id":414743,"date":"2011-05-02T01:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/02\/cbs-correspondent-feared-torturous-death-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2011-05-02T01:54:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T01:54:17","slug":"cbs-correspondent-feared-torturous-death-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/cbs-correspondent-feared-torturous-death-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS correspondent feared &#8216;torturous death&#8217; in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"113.402477152\">\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was covering the revolution in Egypt when she was attacked in Cairo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lara Logan suffered a brutal sexual assault in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life,&#8221; she says<\/li>\n<li>Logan was rescued by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers<\/li>\n<li>She says she is proud of breaking the silence around journalists and sexual violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who suffered an especially brutal sexual assault in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square while covering the country&#8217;s revolution, said Sunday she feared a torturous death at the hands of the mob.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought not only am I going to die here, but it&#8217;s going to be just a torturous death that&#8217;s going to go on forever and ever and ever,&#8221; she said in a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview, her first on camera since the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Logan was covering the celebration that erupted in Tahrir Square following the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on February 11. She reported for about an hour without any trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The atmosphere in the square was festive, like a party, she said, until all of a sudden, it wasn&#8217;t. An Arabic-speaking member of Logan&#8217;s crew abruptly said she needed to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was told later that they were saying, &#8216;Let&#8217;s take her pants off,'&#8221; said Logan, 40, about men in the crowd around her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/us\/2011\/05\/01\/rs.logan.couric.chung.cnn?iref=allsearch\">Connie Chung shows her support for Logan<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/us\/2011\/05\/01\/rs.logan.couric.chung.cnn?iref=allsearch\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/80597b49video_icon.gif.gif\" alt=\"Video\" border=\"0\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" class=\"cnnVideoIcon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before I even know what&#8217;s happening, I feel hands grabbing my breasts, grabbing my crotch, grabbing me from behind,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just one person &#8230; it&#8217;s one person and another person and another person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At first, Logan said she tried to yell, but that her screams &#8220;turned them into a frenzy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things because I couldn&#8217;t even feel that &#8230; the sexual assault was all I could feel &#8212; was their hands raping me over and over and over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Logan felt men pull her hair, trying to rip away her scalp and tear at her limbs, her muscles. Her clothes were shredded.<\/p>\n<p>When she lost contact with the last remaining member of her crew, Logan &#8212; speaking through tears &#8212; said she had no doubt at that moment she was going to die.<\/p>\n<p>But Logan, who has two young children, said she never stopped struggling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about staying alive now. I have to just surrender to the sexual assault. What more can they do now?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;The only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/04\/06\/Egypt.film.sexual.harassment\/index.html?iref=allsearch\">Egyptian film shines light on sexual harassment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The brutal attack went on for some 25 minutes, CBS reported.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, she was dragged by the mob until it was stopped by a fence, near to where a group of Egyptian women was sitting.<\/p>\n<p>She fell onto the lap of one woman, who put her arms around her, protecting her, Logan recalled. Other women closed rank.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, some Egyptian soldiers fought their way through the crowd with batons, Logan said. One threw her over his back and took her to a tank. She was reunited with her crew and soldiers drove them back to their hotel, CBS said.<\/p>\n<p>Logan later flew to the United States, where she went straight to a hospital. She is healing and said she feels strong.<\/p>\n<p>Logan, who told The New York Times last week that she did not plan to give any other interviews after the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment was broadcast, said she is proud of having spoken out about her experience and breaking the silence around journalists and sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>A survey in 2008 by the Egyptian Center for Women&#8217;s Rights claimed that 98% of foreign women and 83% of Egyptian women in the country had been sexually harassed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Women never complain about incidents of sexual violence because you don&#8217;t want someone to say &#8216;Well, women shouldn&#8217;t be out there.&#8217; But I think there are a lot of women who experience these kind of things as journalists and they don&#8217;t want it to stop them from doing their job because they do it for the same reasons as me,&#8221; said Logan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They do it because they believe in being journalists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Read more here|Read the original here|Read more from the original source|Continued here|Read more|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original here|Originally posted here|Here is the original post|See the original post|The rest is here|Read the rest here|See the rest here|Go here to read the rest|Go here to see the original|See the original post here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|See the article here|Read this article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was covering the revolution in Egypt when she was attacked in Cairo. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Lara Logan suffered a brutal sexual assault in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square &#8220;The only thing to fight for, left to fight for, was my life,&#8221; she says Logan was rescued by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers She says she is proud of breaking the silence around journalists and sexual violence (CNN) &#8212; CBS News correspondent Lara Logan, who suffered an especially brutal sexual assault in Egypt&#8217;s Tahrir Square while covering the country&#8217;s revolution, said Sunday she feared a torturous death at the hands of the mob. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":414437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CBS correspondent feared &#039;torturous death&#039; in Egypt - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/02\/cbs-correspondent-feared-torturous-death-in-egypt\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"CBS correspondent feared &#039;torturous death&#039; in Egypt - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was covering the revolution in Egypt when she was attacked in Cairo. 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