In a harrowing interview with ‘Newsweek’ journalist Lara Logan recalls her horrifying ordeal when she was assaulted, beaten and gang raped by hordes of Egyptian men while covering the Arab Spring revolution in Cairo.
The former CBS reporter was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the heart of the uprising against Egypt’s long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak, when on the night of February 11th, shortly before Mubarak stepped down, she was set upon by dozens of male protestors.
Logan describes how her and her security detail ran away from the group of men who had grabbed her but some of the crowd of protestors ran along with her – “I thought we were getting away, but some of the men running with us became my rapists.” Logan recalled.
The reporter went on to tell Newsweek
“If I was knocked down, I’d die.
I fought the assault as best I could for 15 minutes, but they tore all my clothes off and raped me with their hands, with flagpoles and with sticks.
They sodomized me over and over. They were fighting for my body. I couldn’t hold on to Ray any longer.
There was a moment I gave up, but I kept thinking about my two babies.”
Logan believes that her rape was downplayed because of political reasons, and says the attack was described as “groping” in a 2014 New York magazine profile.
After Mubarak’s resignation, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi was swept to power by the victorious protestors in a democratic election only to be himself overthrown a year by the Egyptian military who then installed General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi an old ally of Mubarak as dictator.
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