Originally posted by another user
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Network (CNN. Me. S) radio said on Tuesday in Egypt correspondent Lara Logan was beaten and sexual harassment from a group of mobs during coverage of events in the field of editingIn Cairo, who stepped down today as President Hosni Mubarak from power.
And returned to Logan (39 years) - a veteran military correspondent - to the United States, where recovering in the hospital. It is one of dozens of journalists were attacked during the protests in Egypt over three weeks.
The television network (CNN. Me. S. News) said in a statement that Logan used to cover the celebrations for the program "60 Minutes" on 11 February, when surrounded by the crew accompanying her, "a mob more than 200 people set off on a wave of frenzy."
And she said "at the peak of agitation separated Logan and the crew was trapped and subjected to sexual harassment and brutal and continuous and beaten before being rescued by a group of women and about 20 Egyptian soldiers."
The Committee to Protect Journalists based in New York that at least 52 journalists were attacked and 76 were imprisoned during the protests in Egypt, which led to Mubarak step down after ruling the country for 30 years. It said they were all released.
The committee said that the press - is Mahmoud Ahmed Mohammed Al cooperation of the Egyptian - was killed while filming clashes near Tahrir Square.
Said Paul Steiger, chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists and former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal - "the old regime in Egypt organized a campaign to stop the terrible news of this movement for change."
Steiger was speaking at a news conference to discuss the Committee's annual report, which dealt with the working conditions of journalists in more than 100 countries. The report said that 44 journalists were killed while 145 was deposited with the prison in 2010.