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FORMER CBS News reporter Lara Logan was gang raped "with flagpoles and sticks" while covering the Arab Spring in Egypt nine years ago, she says in a new interview.
Logan was in Cairo covering the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak when she was brutally attacked by a group of men on Feb. 11, 2011.
Journalist Lara Logan of CBS News questions U.S. Soldiers in Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2006
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Journalist Lara Logan of CBS News questions U.S. Soldiers in Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2006Credit: Getty Images - Getty
Lara Logan is pictured in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, 2011, moments before she was raped
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Lara Logan is pictured in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 11, 2011, moments before she was rapedCredit: Handout
The journalist has spoken about the ordeal before, but said previous accounts of the attack had been downplayed by the media.
"You can't have a #MeToo movement standing up for women and righting the wrongs of the past but say nothing about a female journalist who was gang-raped and almost died," she told Newsweek in an interview that was published Monday.
She described the sexual assault in great detail.
A large group of people, believed to be "pro-American," were celebrating when Logan said her terrified translator urged her to start running.
"I felt people grabbing between my legs," she recalled to Newsweek.
"I was quite stunned. Our security, Ray Jackson, and the rest of us ran, and others in the crowd were running with us.
Lara Logan in Iraq in 2006
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Lara Logan in Iraq in 2006Credit: Getty Images - Getty
The chaotic scene at Tahrir Square in 2011
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The chaotic scene at Tahrir Square in 2011
Logan believes some media outlets misreported the brutal attack
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Logan believes some media outlets misreported the brutal attackCredit: AFP - Getty
"I thought we were getting away, but some of the men running with us became my rapists."
She said that Jackson told her to stay on her feet and try to hold on to him.
"If I was knocked down, I'd die," she told Newsweek.
"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."
She said "it was so hard to breathe; there was so much pressure on my rib cage."
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/113948...-spring-egypt/
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