Lara Logan on duty in Iraq.
Lara Logan is a correspondent for CBS’ “60 Minutes,” and CBS News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent, a position she has held since June 2008.
When I was overwhelmed by a mob of men in Tahrir Square in Egypt last February, I was filled with the certainty that I would die there. In my mind, I could see an image of my body lying discarded in the dirt.
It struck me that it would be a truly meaningless death.
And yet I was so shocked by the sexual assault, that instead of fighting for my life, I was at first fighting for my dignity. I kept appealing for mercy, begging them to stop in the midst of the violence and the chaos, as they tore my clothes from my body and raped me with their hands. Hundreds of them. Continue reading
Girls' Power Initiative (GPI) Benin City, Nigeria 