Opposition Over Planned Lara Logan Protest in Cairo

(NewsCore) - Plans to stage a Cairo protest demanding justice for CBS news correspondent Lara Logan have met with widespread opposition in Egypt, the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported Wednesday.

Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a group of men in the Egyptian capital's Tahrir Square on 11 February, the night embattled leader Hosni Mubarak resigned after weeks of anti-government demonstrations.

The protest is being organized by Egyptian-American activist Karim Mohy and will demand that "the government and military bring her attackers to justice" and shed light on the issue of "sexual assault and sexual harassment" in Egyptian society.

Mohy, 31, who is not expecting a big turnout, said: "I could never find any kind of official [Egyptian] response about what had happened."

"I'd say a great deal of the world has heard about it. It happened here, and most people here don't know anything about it."

However, a Facebook page set up to promote the protest has drawn mainly negative comments, according to the paper.

"I would love to see this group fighting [sexual] harassment and not promoting the fact the one foreigner was assaulted," wrote one female commentator by the name of Arwa Atef Shalaby.

Another, writing under the name Kathy, said: "Given what else is going on … eg, other revolutions in the region, you aren't going to get the media coverage you need to draw attention to the issue effectively right now."

According to The (London) Sunday Times, the brutal attack on Logan included her being stripped, repeatedly punched and slapped, and pinched so hard that sensitive parts of her body were covered in red marks. Wounds on her body were reportedly consistent with being hit by the poles that demonstrators were using to fly flags.

Logan, chief foreign correspondent for the network, was taken to the Four Seasons hotel, treated and sedated and then flown out of the country. She continues to recover at her Washington, D.C., home.

CBS originally said only that Logan was "surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers."

The White House has demanded that Egypt bring those who attacked Logan to justice.

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