{"id":67043,"date":"2011-02-16T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=67043"},"modified":"2011-02-16T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T09:32:02","slug":"lara-logan-of-cbs-attacked-by-mob-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/16\/lara-logan-of-cbs-attacked-by-mob-in-cairo.html","title":{"rendered":"Lara Logan of CBS Attacked by Mob in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior CBS correspondent is recovering in hospital in the US after she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the Egyptian protests, the US network says.<\/p>\n<p>It says the attack occurred on Friday in Cairo&#8217;s packed Tahrir Square after President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>Logan became separated from her crew and was rescued by women and soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, CBS said that Logan and her team became &#8220;surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration&#8221; with a mob of more than 200 people &#8220;whipped into a frenzy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said Logan was recovering following what it described as &#8220;a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A group of women and an estimated 20 soldiers managed to save her after she became separated from her colleagues and security, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old South African returned to the US on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Logan is CBS News&#8217; chief foreign affairs correspondent and has reported from Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior CBS correspondent is recovering in hospital in the US after she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering the&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14142,21963,20829,21962,21961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}