After a mob surrounded her in Cairo while she was covering the recent protests,reporter Lara Logan suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers, the CBS network said in a statement. Logan is recovering at a hospital in the US. Logan,39,the networks chief foreign affairs correspondent,was covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square with a camera crew and security staff members. The CBS team was enveloped by a dangerous element within the crowd,CBS said,that numbered more than 200 people. That mob separated Logan from her team and then attacked her. Once she was rescued,CBS said she reconnected with the team and returned to the US on February 12. On her first trip to cover the protests,Logan was detained overnight by authorities. During the protests,the Committee to Protect Journalists registered 53 assaults on journalists. In an article for the Columbia Journalism Review in 2007,writer,Judith Matloff,wrote foreign correspondents rarely tell anyone,even when the abuse is rape. BRIAN STELTER
