CBS' 60 Minutes Correspondent Lara Logan Back in Hospital Due to Complications Resulting from Her Traumatic 2011 Sexual Attack in Egypt
Lara Logan, 43, broadcast media journalist and war correspondent and chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News and CBS' 60 Minutes, is back in a hospital in Washington, D.C., due to years-long complications stemming from the brutal sexual assault she endured in Egypt while covering the Arab Spring uprising in early 2011.
The Breitbart News reports that the veteran journalist was still physically suffering from the attack she endured at the hands of a mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the day Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power. A spokesman for 60 Minutes in an email to the news site wrote: "We were sorry to hear this morning that Lara was readmitted to the hospital. We wish her a speedy recovery."
Citing Ed Butowsky, a close friend and confidante of the family, Breitbart News said that Logan has been going in and out of the hospital for the last few years since returning after the brutal attack in Egypt, all while continuing reporting from the most dangerous places on earth and raising her three children. This year alone, she has been in the hospital at least four times this year alone according to Butowsky who adds: "It was amazing that on Sunday we watched her report-and do an amazing job on a piece on Christianity in Iraq-and she did the story while ISIS was just four to six miles from where she was reporting. She did the story over the last four to six months on location in the face of ISIS all while suffering from the brutal sexual assault she suffered at the hands of evil forces at play during the Arab Spring. She has not only a mental but a physical tattoo of what these savages do to people. Tip your hat to all reporters brave enough to do this type of work."
Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted in February 2011 while covering the celebrations following Mubarak's resignation. She said the incident involved 200-300 men and lasted around 25 minutes. The men tore off her clothes and raped her with their hands while taking photographs with their cellphones. They began pulled her body in different directions, pulling her hair so hard she said it seemed they were trying to tear off chunks of her scalp. She was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence. A woman put her arms around her, while some men who were with the woman threw water at the attacking crowd. Soldiers then appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and took her to safety. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she spent four days in the hospital.