Friday, April 29, 2011

Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it,” she said.

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
Lara Logan, a CBS News reporter, was sexually assaulted while working in Cairo on Feb. 11.

“When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society.
Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
“I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it;” Lara Logan Breaks Her Silence - Patterico
“I would kill her. I really mean that;” Religious Bigotry and the Fight for Freedom of Expression Comes to the Playboy Mansion
- also at Patterico