Lara Logan Sexually Assausted in Egypt

The details are sketchy but this sound really bad. Earlier this month: Logan and her CBS News crew were detained and forced to leave Egypt. Logan told Charlie Rose that her Egyptian driver was badly beaten by the police. Logan still went back to cover the story of the Egyptian protests. That takes a tremendous amount of courage.

Logan and her CBS News crew were covering the Tahrir Square protests for a 60 Minutes story. A mob sepearated Logan from her crew. CBS News reports that Logan "suffered a brutal and sustained assault." Translation: Logan suffered the unspeakable terror of being gangraped.

A group of Egyptian woman came to Logan's rescue. Egyptian soldiers also helped get Logan away from the mob. There is no word on whether Logan's attackers were Mubarak supporters or pro-democracy protesters.

Logan is currently recovering from her injuries in the United States.

Side note: Logan talked to Esquire about being detained by the Egyptian army.

Update: Ann Friedman makes an excellent point that I didn't consider.

News broke today that CBS News correspondent Lara Logan “suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” while she was covering the Egyptian protests in Tahrir Square. As Garance Franke-Ruta pointed out on Twitter, the fact that we’re hearing about this probably means that Logan was OK with making her assault public. This is an incredibly brave act, not just from a personal standpoint — she has come out as a sexual assault survivor — but also from a professional one.