Her attack reverberated around the world and highlighted the dangers of sexual assault and harassment that women face while reporting.CBS correspondent Lara Logan was attacked by a mob near Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, the day when President Hosni Mubarak was finally driven from power.Before reading about what had happened to her, lets know in brief about lara logan.
she was born on 29 March 1971,in Durban, South Africa. She attended high school at Durban Girls' College, and later attended the University of Natal in Durban, graduating in 1992. She is a television journalist and war correspondent. Lara is currently the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News,She appears in segments for CBS Evening News. Logan's husband, Joseph Burkett, is a U.S. Federal Government defense contractor from Texas, whom she met in Afghanistan. They live in Washington, D.C., with their two-year-old son and Burkett's daughter.
Logan is a popular reporter who gained accolades for her reporting the issues of Haifa Street Fighting, Michael Hastings controversy and Protests in Egypt etc. But things went wrong during reporting of
Egypt which left a bitter remembrance in her life,and an Eye Opener to many to take a note how bad can sexual assault can go in the present hi-fi well educated society.
Egypt which left a bitter remembrance in her life,and an Eye Opener to many to take a note how bad can sexual assault can go in the present hi-fi well educated society.
In interviews with the New York Times on Thursday,Breaking her silence which she was maintaining since around 2 months now, Logan said what happened when the mob surrounded her and about the the attack which lasted for 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.And to the surprise of everyone Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following the resignation of then President Hosni Mubarak.Can one imagine what would be the state of a human being being assaluted on one side where on the other side celebrations are goin on.
Logan said "Our camera battery went down, and we had to stop for a moment, and suddenly, Bahar [the Egyptian cameraman] looks at me and says, 'we've got to get out of here,'" she told CBS' Scott Pelley. "I thought, not only am I going to die here, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever and ever and ever.She also Said "For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands," she said. "My clothes were torn to pieces...what really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence. There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying. I thought not only am I going to die, but it's going to be just a torturous death that's going to go on forever"
she said in the interview " I decided almost immediately that i would speak out about sexual violence both on behalf of other journalists and on behalf of 'millions of voiceless women who are subjected to attacks like this and worse"
She also added, that she does not plan to do further interviews about the rape after 60 Minutes airs in
the New york times: “I don't want this to define me.Logan ,We really appreciate your guts to raise your voice against the sexual assault women face everyday in every corner of life, we are all with you .
She also added, that she does not plan to do further interviews about the rape after 60 Minutes airs in
the New york times: “I don't want this to define me.Logan ,We really appreciate your guts to raise your voice against the sexual assault women face everyday in every corner of life, we are all with you .
Good luck for your future, Have a good life ahead!!!
