CBS reporter Lara Logan was surrounded, beaten and sexually assaulted after being separated from her team in the midst of Egyptian protests last Friday.
CBS News released a statement that on February 11th, shortly after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power,
“chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a ’60 Minutes’ story when 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 frenzy. In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She 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.”
Logan was able to rejoin her team and return to the U.S. She was recovering in a hospital on Feb. 15.
CBS’ statement concludes by saying: “There will be no further comment from CBS News, and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.”
Esquire landed an interview with Logan just last week, on her way back to Cairo after being kicked out of the country the week before. “This is the Tiananmen Square of the cyber age,” she said. “There’s no question.”
Reporter Foster Kamer incredulously asked Logan if CBS was “insured for this s**t” and if she was crazy to go back to the thick of the protests. “You know,” Logan answered, smiling, “I don’t worry about things like that.”
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Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, tells The Washington Post she is pregnant, and the father is a married federal contractor whom she met while stationed in Iraq.
Logan’s relationship with Joseph Burkett – who’s in the midst of a divorce from wife Kimberly, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter – has made media headlines, including the front page of the New York Post.
Logan is going through a divorce from estranged husband Jason Siemon, a Chicago-based energy lobbyist whom she married in 1998.
“Nobody likes to read about themselves like that, especially the way it’s been sensationalized,” Logan, 37, told The Washington Post. “I hated it. But I’m just going to rise above it and keep going.”
Logan, whose pregnancy was unplanned, told the newspaper her due date is in January, and she’s “looking forward to being a mom.”
Logan – a South Africa native who began dating Burkett following her November breakup with CNN correspondent Michael Ware – said she and Burkett plan to marry eventually.
Logan’s publicist, Tom Keaney, declined to comment.
The reporter – known for her intrepid war coverage – was promoted to CBS’ chief foreign affairs correspondent last month, and is based in Washington.
Logan, a contributor to “60 Minutes,” has won numerous reporting accolades, including an Emmy and Overseas Press Club Award
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