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Lara Logan Was Stripped, Punched, Slapped, Report Says

By Dana ChivvisFeb 21st 2011 – 2:58PM
CBS News / AP

CBS News / AP

New details have emerged in the "brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" inflicted on CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan in Egypt's Tahrir Square the night President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power. During the Feb. 11 attack, Logan was stripped of her clothes, punched and slapped by the crowd,...

Opinion: Lara Logan Assault Exposes Egypt's Dirty Little Secret

Feb 17th 2011 – 7:30AM
Sherry Jones

Sherry Jones

The sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the revolution in Egypt is reprehensible. Her courage, for daring to make her story public, is laudable, drawing attention as it does to the contemptuous treatment of women in Egyptian society. Sherry Jones Author Sherry Jones visited Egypt...

Nir Rosen: 5 Facts on the Journalist Under Fire for Lara Logan Remarks

By Torie BoschFeb 16th 2011 – 12:52PM

Journalist Nir Rosen has traveled around the world to report on war and other global catastrophes. But now he's under fire for something he said, not because he's in a battle zone. Rosen has apologized for tweeting remarkably tone-deaf remarks after learning that CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan had been sexually...

Lara Logan Attack Sparks Ugly Internet Debate, Resignation

By Steven HofferFeb 16th 2011 – 11:36AM
CBS News / AP

CBS News / AP

The sexual assault of Lara Logan has generated no shortage of Web debate, and much of the dialogue has not been cordial. Logan, who has returned to the U.S. and is expected to be released from the hospital as early as today, "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women...

Lara Logan Hospitalized Following 'Brutal' Sexual Assault in Egypt

By David KnowlesFeb 15th 2011 – 4:34PM
CBS News / AP

CBS News / AP

CBS News released a statement today regarding the condition of Lara Logan, its chief foreign affairs correspondent. According to CBS, Logan was separated from her crew, beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down as president of Egypt. In the crush of the...

lara logan assault News From the Web

  • 05/16/11 The assault on Lara Lara Logan and the assault on... Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA While reporting on Egypt's political unrest in February, war correspondent Lara Logan was physically and sexually assaulted by a Cairo mob.
  • 02/17/11 The Nir Rosen Overreaction Source: The Daily Beast Rosen destroyed his reputation by joking about Lara Logan's assault, but the media should stop reducing people to the worst thing they've ever done, writes Michelle Goldberg.

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