Lara Logan, On Feb. 11, the day when the Presendent Hosni Mubarak was resign , the CBN News correspondent Lara Logan was brutaly attacked and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo.
Net work said in a statement that MS. Logan was beaten brutaly and sexually assaulted before a group of women and Egyptian Soldiers saved her.MS. Logan is recovering at a hospital in the US.
Ms. Logan, the CBN News chief foreign affairs correspondent was there in Tahrir Square to covering the celebrations with her security staff as a crowd of more than 200 people surrounded her team they separated her and then attacked her.
She returned to the United State as she rescued on Feb 12. She was hospitalized where she is recovering now a days.
The CBS statement mentioned nothing more about the attackers. It also said that there would be “no further comment from CBS News, and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.”
Before she returned to Cairo on Feb. 10, she told the Web site of Esquire magazine that she thought her team included one security staff member. Equipped with expensive cameras and bright lights, television news crews regularly travel with security experts who assess threats in dangerous locations.
The trip was Ms. Logan’s second to Egypt to cover the protests that have roiled the country in January and February. On her first trip, she was detained and interrogated overnight by security authorities.
During the protests, the Committee to Protect Journalists registered 53 assaults on journalists. It did not delineate the genders of the people affected. There were also dozens of cases of harassment during the weeks of protests, and some female journalists complained about being singled out by crowds. There were no other known sexual assaults.
The committee, whose board includes Ms. Logan, said Tuesday evening in a statement: “We have seen Lara’s compassion at work while helping journalists who have faced brutal aggression while doing their jobs. She is a brilliant, courageous, and committed reporter. Our thoughts are with Lara as she recovers.”
Source: CBN News
Net work said in a statement that MS. Logan was beaten brutaly and sexually assaulted before a group of women and Egyptian Soldiers saved her.MS. Logan is recovering at a hospital in the US.
Ms. Logan, the CBN News chief foreign affairs correspondent was there in Tahrir Square to covering the celebrations with her security staff as a crowd of more than 200 people surrounded her team they separated her and then attacked her.She returned to the United State as she rescued on Feb 12. She was hospitalized where she is recovering now a days.
The CBS statement mentioned nothing more about the attackers. It also said that there would be “no further comment from CBS News, and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.”
Before she returned to Cairo on Feb. 10, she told the Web site of Esquire magazine that she thought her team included one security staff member. Equipped with expensive cameras and bright lights, television news crews regularly travel with security experts who assess threats in dangerous locations.
The trip was Ms. Logan’s second to Egypt to cover the protests that have roiled the country in January and February. On her first trip, she was detained and interrogated overnight by security authorities.
During the protests, the Committee to Protect Journalists registered 53 assaults on journalists. It did not delineate the genders of the people affected. There were also dozens of cases of harassment during the weeks of protests, and some female journalists complained about being singled out by crowds. There were no other known sexual assaults.
The committee, whose board includes Ms. Logan, said Tuesday evening in a statement: “We have seen Lara’s compassion at work while helping journalists who have faced brutal aggression while doing their jobs. She is a brilliant, courageous, and committed reporter. Our thoughts are with Lara as she recovers.”
Source: CBN News
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