Lifting the barbed veil


Date: March 11, 2011
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For a moment, it seemed that Egypt wasn’t just throwing off its political shackles. Women, long suffering from the scourge of sexual harassment, reported that Cairo’s Tahrir Square, command central of the uprising, had become a safe zone free of the groping and leering common in their country. Now the reported attack on a senior US TV correspondent during the final night of the 18-day revolt has shown that the threat of violence against women in Egypt remains real. CBS has said its chief foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, went through a “brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating” by a frenzied mob in the square during Friday’s celebrations after Hosni Mubarak stepped down.


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