02 July 2013A YOUNG female journalist was gang-raped during...

02 July 2013

A YOUNG female journalist was gang-raped during violent mass protests in Egypt on a night that saw 44 sickening attacks on women.

Five men attacked the 22-year-old Dutch woman in Tahrir Square, Cairo, leaving her in a “severe condition” and needing surgery.

While reports also claimed a grandmother and a seven-year-old child were sexually assaulted.

The Dutch woman is thought to have been an intern taking pictures of the protests for an Egyptian organisation.
The attack comes just two years after a leading US reporter was molested by gangs of men while covering demonstrations in the same sqaure.

Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, tweeted: “Sadly #tahrir revolutionary atmosphere of people behaving well with common purpose long gone. Sexual assault common. No cops in sight.”

Millions of protestors have taken to the streets in and around Tahrir Square, Cairo, to demand the removal of Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi.

Activist group Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment recorded 44 cases of sexual assaults and harassment against women on Sunday night alone - the highest number it has encountered since the group formed in November 2012.

The group tweeted: “Among the reported cases tonight are grandmothers, mothers with their children, 7yr olds. Common denominator: all female.”

It also urged women to stay away from Tahrir Square until the situation has been taken control of.


In 2011, US foreign correspondent for CBS Lara Logan was attacked by at least 200 men in Tahrir Square.
The attackers tore at her clothes and "raped her with their hands" in a 40-minute attack that only ended when a group of women came to her aid.


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