The United States on Friday urged Egypt to probe an alleged sexual assault on star CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan while she was covering the downfall of president Hosni Mubarak.
"We have called for an investigation. It was a deplorable, horrible attack on her. Egypt needs to investigate this," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters in Washington.
Logan was in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on February 11, the day Mubarak stepped down, and was separated from her crew in the crowd, her employer CBS News said in a statement this week.
"She and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy," CBS said. "In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew."
Logan "was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers." She was flown to the United States the next day where she was treated in hospital.
[Source : english.kompas.com]
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