is the hidden face of the popular uprising in Egypt. Parties covering the demonstrations that were held for three weeks across the country including in Cairo, some 140 journalists were assaulted or been detained. Among them, Lara Logan, one of the reporters of the most famous war of the United States. Chief Correspondent Abroad CBS News, it was Tahir place last Friday, the day Hosni Mubarak has left office. "She ended up with his team and their security guards, surrounded by dangerous elements during the celebrations," said a statement from CBS. "It was a band of over 200 people to frenzy boosted in the jostling, Lara Logan has been separated from his team then surrounded by several men. It then undergoes a" brutal and prolonged sexual assault ". A group of women accompanied by 20 Egyptian military who came to his rescue. The next day the journalist of 39 years, originally from South Africa, was repatriated to the United States and immediately hospitalized. Into custody a week before Great accustomed areas of conflict - it has covered Iraq and Afghanistan - Lara Logan worked at CBS since 2002 and was promoted to head of regional correspondents of CBS News in 2006. A week before the attack site Tahir, the journalist was detained for one day by the Egyptian army, along with a producer and a cameraman for CBS. She returned to Cairo shortly before the resignation of Mubarak. Professor at the School of Journalism in Columbia, Judith Matloff has paid tribute to the young woman: "Entrusting you have been sexually assaulted is courageous," says 20Minutes. "In general, war correspondents do not speak because they are afraid of not being sent on a mission."
http://www.elle.fr/elle/Societe/News/Egypte-une journalist-star-of-sexually-assaulted-CBS / (gid) / 1498714
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