page_title: Rape in Egypt
section_title: During protests
hierarchical_section_title: Rape in Egypt / Mass sexual assault / During protests
caption_attribution_description: English: Lara Logan with CBS's "60 Minutes", sits with U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Chris Corbin, assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), before conducting an interview at Eglin Base Air Force Base, Fla., March 18, 2013.
context_page_description: Rape is one of the most common crimes in Egypt. Marital rape is not illegal in Egypt. By 2008, the U.N. quoted Egypt's Interior Ministry's figure that 20,000 rapes take place every year, although according to the activist Engy Ghozlan, rapes are 10 times higher than the stats given by Interior Ministry, making it 200,000 per year. Mona Eltahawy has also noted the same figure, and added that this was before the revolution, and that today the number is actually higher.
  Rapes have been carried out during festivals and the Egyptian protests, and include the public rapes of women, and female journalists.
context_section_description: During the 2011 - 2014 Egyptian protests, rape had been carried out publicly.
  CBS correspondent Lara Logan revealed in her 60 Minutes program that she and her CBS crew were arrested and detained for one night by the Egyptian Army on 3 February 2011, while covering the Egyptian Revolution. She said the crew was blindfolded and handcuffed at gunpoint, and their driver beaten. They were advised to leave the country, but were later released. On 15 February 2011, CBS News released a statement that Logan had been beaten and sexually assaulted on 11 February, while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square following Hosni Mubarak's resignation.
  In Logan's own words, they raped her with their hands, while taking photographs with their cellphones. They began pulling her body in different directions, pulling her hair so hard she said it seemed they were trying to tear off chunks of her scalp.
  Believing she was dying, she was dragged along the square to where the crowd was stopped by a fence, alongside which a group of women were camping. One woman wearing a chador put her arms around Logan, and the others closed ranks around her, while some men who were with the women threw water at the crowd.
  A group of soldiers appeared, beat back the crowd with batons, and one of them threw Logan over his shoulder. She was flown back to the U.S. the next day, where she spent four days in the hospital. She was contacted by US president Barack Obama when she arrived home. CBS said it remained unclear who the attackers were, and unlikely that any will be prosecuted.
  After the fall of Mubarak, there was rapid escalation, beginning with the attacks, on the night he stepped down. The Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy was sexually assaulted by a gang of security men after being detained. An Egyptian journalist Hania Moheeb was trapped for more than an hour among men who sexually assaulted her.
  A female 22-year-old Dutch journalist was gang raped by 5 men in the protest.
  Such incidents don't seem to be opposed by the government or officials, but instead seemed to have gathered support. Report by Nina Burleigh quotes Egyptian Salafi preacher Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, who said that "women protesting in Tahrir Square have no shame and want to be raped".
  After revolution, about 50% of women have reported more harassment. 44% said that harassment remained is same as it was before, while, over 58% of men surveyed have told that harassment has been increased after revolution.
caption: Lara Logan
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