Stripped, punched and whipped with flag poles: Full horror of Lara Logan's attack emerges

More details have emerged of Lara Logan's terrifying ordeal at the hands of a frenzied mob.

The 39-year-old foreign correspondent for CBS News show 60 Minutes was separated from her film crew in Cairo on February 11 and surrounded by as many as 200 men in Tahrir Square at the height of the anti-Mubarak demonstrations.

According to one source, reported in The Sunday Times newspaper, sensitive parts of her body were covered in red marks that were originally thought to have been bite marks.

 Vow to return: Despite her ordeal, Miss Logan intends to return to work, as well as the Middle East

Moments before attack: Lara Logan is seen surrounded by demonstrators in Tahrir Square on the night of her 'brutal and sustained assault'

After further examination they were revealed to be from aggressive pinching.

It has also been revealed that she was stripped, punched and slapped by the crowd, which was labelling her a spy and chanting 'Israeli' and 'Jew' as they beat her.

After further examination they were revealed to be from aggressive pinching.

It has also been revealed that she was stripped, punched and slapped by the crowd, which was labelling her a spy and chanting 'Israeli' and 'Jew' as they beat her.

CBS News was not revealing any more information about the incident, except to say that she was the victim of a 'brutal and sustained assault' at the hands of around 200 men who had been 'whipped into a frenzy' on the night Hosni Mubarak resigned from power.

Guards who had escorted her into the square were also badly beaten by the mob, with one suffering a broken hand, and it took women in the square and about 20 soldiers to finally rescue her from her attackers.

She was taken to the Four Seasons hotel, where she was treated and sedated by the hotel doctor.

Within hours of the attack she was was flown out of the country and spent five days in a New York hospital.

Witnesses say the mainly peaceful protests to end Mubarak's rule had taken a more violent turn after the Egyptian president announced his resignation.

The military presence controlling the amount of people entering Tahrir Square seemed to evaporate, and an angrier element had flowed in.

Miss Logan was attacked around 1am as she filmed in the square.

Egyptian state media had been publishing negative stories about foreign journalists, with many reports alleging that many Israeli spies were masquerading as news crews.

Days before her attack, Miss Logan had been held in Alexandria on suspicion of being foreign spies.

Moment grieving mother fights off violent mugger's attack as he tries to steal her phone... with a video of her dead baby on it

This is the horrifying moment a mother is punched to the ground by a violent mugger trying to steal her purse.

But the brave woman fights the thug off in a desperate bid to keep hold of her purse - because inside it was a recording of her dead baby calling her 'Mommy'.

The unnamed woman was punched in the face and dragged along the street in the Venice beach area of Los Angeles.

One of the possessions in the bag was a mobile phone with recordings of her infant daughter Minty on it.

Ready to die: Footage shows the unnamed mother and her baby daughter, Minty, who died ten weeks ago of cancer

Not letting go: The defiant woman is dragged into the road by her attacker

The toddler tragically died just 10 weeks before the incident from cancer.

CCTV images show the former New Yorker refusing to let go of the bag - despite brutal attempts by her attacker.

He punches her to the ground and drags her along the street in the horrifying footage.

But the woman fiercely refuses to let go of the bag - and the cowardly mugger finally gives up and races off.

The victim told the KTLA TV network that she was willing to die rather than give up the recordings of her child.

She said: 'When it happened I just, I was totally ready to die. I did not care. I was like, that recording is on that phone with Minty babbling and saying mommy and laughing.'

Despite the ordeal, the woman escaped with only minor cuts and bruises.

Her attacker is still on the loose after making his escape - empty handed - in a van and police are still trying to hunt him down.

The incident happened on September 19, the 10-week anniversary of the Minty's death.

'It was literally to the minute, to the day that Minty had died,' the victim added.

The vicious robber tries to grab the woman's handbag in a Los Angeles street

Israeli commando attack on Gaza-bound aid flotilla judged unlawful and violated human rights, rule UN panel

An attack by Israeli commandos on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla in May was unlawful and resulted in violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, a panel of international experts said on Wednesday.


The three experts, nominated by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the Israeli attack in which nine pro-Palestinian activists - eight Turks and one Turkish-American - were killed, also said that Israel's blockade of Gaza had caused a humanitarian crisis and was unlawful.



The experts - judges from Britain and Trinidad and a Malaysian human rights campaigner - said in a report that the Israeli military's action had used disproportionate force and 'totally unnecessary and incredible violence' in intercepting the flotilla.

'Unacceptable level of brutality': The UN report said the Israeli military's action had used disproportionate force and 'totally unnecessary and incredible violence' in intercepting the flotilla.

'It betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality,’ the report, due to be submitted to the rights council on Sept. 27, continued.

‘Such conduct cannot be justified or condoned on security or any other grounds.

'It constituted grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law.'

The three experts said Israel had a right to security, and the firing of rockets into Israel from Hamas-controlled Gaza also constituted violations of humanitarian law.

But the Israeli blockade of Gaza amounted to collective punishment of the civilian population and was not lawful in any circumstances, they said.

The rights experts, who were not allowed to enter Israel, said Israel had refused to cooperate with their mission, and called on the Israeli authorities to identify those involved in the violence and prosecute them.

Israel, which says pro-Palestinian activists on the boat were killed when they attacked its commandos, had said from the outset it would not work with the probe by the rights council.

Many nations believe the council, on which Islamic states and their allies have a majority, focuses on Israeli treatment of Palestinians at the expense of other rights issues.

Israel has said it would cooperate with another U.N. probe convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon into the incident, which damaged Israel's ties with Turkey. Israel is also conducting its own inquiry.

Monday's session of the rights council will also examine another report by experts on the follow-up investigations by Israeli and Palestinian authorities into the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict. That report has found the probes were inadequate.

Before the attack: The pro-Palestine ship Mavi Marmara leaves port. She was one of the boats carrying humanitarian aid before they were attacked

Violations: The UN Human Rights Council has ruled the Israeli attack on a ship that killed nine pro-Palestinian activists and the subsequent blockade of Gaza was unlawful

Unjustified: The UN also said the attack constituted grave violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law