Victory celebration gone wrong
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'Please God, make it stop!' British female journalist, 21, describes horrific sexual assault in Egypt's Tahrir Square after election result
- Natasha Smith attacked by a 'group of animals' who stripped her naked
- Only escaped after she was handed a burka and men's clothes
- 'I was tossed around like fresh meat among starving lions'
By DAILY MAIL REPORTERPUBLISHED: 12:40 GMT, 27 June 2012 | UPDATED: 15:51 GMT, 27 June 2012
A British journalist was brutally sexually assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square as thousands of Egyptians gathered to celebrate the nation's presidential election results.
Natasha Smith, 21, has detailed how she was violently attacked by a 'group of animals' who stripped her naked, scratched and clenched her breasts and 'forced their fingers inside her'.
She only escaped by donning men's clothes and a burka and being whisked away to safety by two other men.
Assaulted: Natasha Smith has written about her horrific ordeal in Tahrir Square on her blog
Writing on her blog, she said: 'All I could see was leering faces, more and more faces sneering and jeering as I was tossed around like fresh meat among starving lions.'
The incident occured on Sunday when Egyptians flooded the area celebrating the announcement Mohammed Morsi would be the nation's first democratically elected leader.
Smith, who will graduate with an MA in International Journalism from University College Falmouth in August, was in Tahrir to film the crowd for a documentary on women's rights.
But the initial 'atmosphere of jubilation, excitement, and happiness', quickly turned against her.
She said: 'Just as I realised I had reached the end of the bridge, I noticed the crowd became thicker, and decided immediately to turn around to avoid Tahrir Square.
'My friends and I tried to leave. I tried to put my camera back in my rucksack. But in a split second, everything changed.
The former Weymouth College and University of Nottingham student said she was then stripped naked and assaulted.
Attacked: CBS reporter Lara Logan moments before she was assaulted in February 2011
She wrote: 'I began to think, 'maybe this is just it. Maybe this is how I go, how I die. Ive had a good life. Whether I live or die, this will all be over soon.'
A friend eventually reached her and managed to guide her to a medical tent. Local women helped protect her as she put on the burka and clothes.
She said: 'The men outside remained thirsty for blood; their prey had been cruelly snatched from their grasp.
'They peered in, so I had to duck down and hide. They attempted to attack the tent, and those inside began making a barricade out of chairs. They wanted my blood.'
She then escaped by posing as a stranger's wife and walking out hand-in-hand with the man.
She added: 'The women told me the attack was motivated by rumours spread by trouble-making thugs that I was a foreign spy.
'But if that was the cause, it was only really used as a pretext, an excuse, to molest and violate a blonde young Western girl.'
Smith is not the first western woman to be assaulted while working in Egypt. CBS News' Lara Logan was attacked during the 2011 revolution. She said 'men in the crowd had raped me with their hands'.
Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy was also assaulted by Egyptian security forces in November.
And Smith has vowed that the abuse would not stop her from exposing the wider issue of sexual assault in the country.
She said: 'I will overcome this and come back stronger and wiser. My documentary will be fuelled by my passion to help make people aware of just how serious this issue is.
'It's not just a passing news story that briefly gets peoples attention then is forgotten. This is a consistent trend and it has to stop.
'Arab women, western women there are so many sufferers.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ific-sexual-assault-Egypts-Tahrir-Square.html
Total propaganda . . . . Before posting this news as a thread, better had looked at the credentials of this Daily Mail . . . . It is just like the "News of the World" is a cheap propaganda tool . . . . Assaults as such happens (And must be condemned) every where, but this incident seems to be a sort of political propaganda by linking it some how with the BrotherHood . . . .
Interestingly . . . . She did nt loged any police report or any sort of complain with any authority and instead, this news was reported as been written on her Facebook page . . . . While checking on her facebook page, I was not able to even find any such post . . . . And you all must visit too so that if I am wrong, I could be corrected . . . . Even the account of this so called journalist seems to be fake as it has been created a couple of months back in 2012 . . . .
Furthermore, I request the Admin to close this thread as it is a baseless lie and Propaganda . . . .
JusticeLover
Minister (2k+ posts)
Bara hi sharamnak wakia ha agar asa hoa hai to, shame on these so called Muslims.
BuTurabi
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
آجکل تکفریوں کی کوکھ سے اِسکا نیا مطلب جنما ہے جِس کے مطابق ہر وہ آزادانہ سوچنے والا اِنسان جو اِس ’’ٹھیکداری نظام‘‘ کا انکار کرے اور اِنکی اجارہ داری کی چھابڑی اُلٹا کر اِنہیں بے روزگار کر دے تکفیری کہلاتا ہے۔
JojoBubble
MPA (400+ posts)
what the hell did you just say? .:13:
BuTurabi
Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
JojoBubble
MPA (400+ posts)
im pretty sure u making this stuff up. I have never heard of this word takfaree. you messing with every one . i dont know if you are for real or a troll.
lol [hilar][hilar]
where ever the Britishers have been , that surface of soil has not seen stability again.Its a non trustworthy scum-bag nation.They divided the world , they rulled over the world , they plundered the world .Their country is a heaven for all intrernational criminals who can bring their countries wealth to British.
[h=1]Lara Logan breaks her silence[/h]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO12X1nhzzk&feature=player_embedded:13:
atensari
(50k+ posts) بابائے فورم
ہر مسلمان کو اسلام کا ٹھیکیدار ہونا چاہیے
مسلمان کو کافر/مرتد قرار دینا تکفیر کہلاتا ہے
atensari
(50k+ posts) بابائے فورم
نسلی تکفیریوں کا بزنس ایجادات پر قائم ہے. ایسی ایسی باتیں نکالے جن کا پہلے وجود ہی نہیں تھا. جو جتنا بڑا موجد ہے اتنا ہی بڑا "جاہل" اور اتنا ہی زیادہ ریٹ
What are you trying to proof dear . . . . I don t want to hear this clip at all . . . .
Incident of Lara Logan happened in Feb 2011 . . . . I repeat Feb 2011 . . . . And she was assulted by the Hosni Mubarak Secret Police . . . . Irepeat Hosni Mubarak Secret Police . . . . What her breaking of silence has to do with this alleged assault on Natasha Smith on 26 June 2012 . . . .
Don t try to play smart . . . . Which you are not . . . .
Need more or enough??
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/27/world/meast/egypt-journalist-assaulted/index.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/natasha-smith-egypt_n_1628245.html?utm_hp_ref=world
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...st-natasha-smith-sexual-assault-tahrir-square
Don't know what is wrong with u guys, I just posted a news, Dont try to become blind, jo ghalat hay wo ghalat hay chaye wo americi karein bartanwi ya misri...
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There is some thing wrong with you dear . . . .
Wrong is wrong , no doubt . . . . But there is no such report of this incident on the Facebook of Natasha Smith as claimed by the News Agency . . . .
If this incident has happened, why Police report no lodged . . . . Why any egyptian authority not contacted . . . . You may give link of ten more sites, but still it is not a proof unless the victim does not lodge the complain herself with the authorities . . . . Is there any video statement of Natasha Smith . . . . Absolutly no . . . .
Infact, most of the News agencies are trying the deceive the viewers by interconnecting it with Lara Logan incident happened at the time of Hosni Mubarak in Feb 2011 by the hands of his secret police . . . .
If they are trying to play smart . . . . Don t try to play like Goofs . . . .
I again request the Admin to delete this thread as it is becoming a cause of propaganda against a recent muslim elected government . . . .
And liberal Facist under the cover of this thread are abusing the Observing muslims . . . .
yar, i know, i ve heard stories about egyptions reaction to women.. pakistani pooondr x 100 = 1 Egyption. not to worry, if they do things in enjoyment.
Hazik
MPA (400+ posts)
yes one should not be conclusive if you are not 100% sure. Western Governments are afraid of Revolutions started in Turkey, Syria, Egypt. This incident might have happened or deliberately planted. Wrong is wrong but the world these days is full of propaganda and cheating......
TruPakistani
Minister (2k+ posts)
The reality is that they make a headline of any such story (usually fake) and hide the facts.
The real picture is:
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That's more than 600 women every day. Other estimates, such as those generated by the FBI, are much lower because they rely on data from law enforcement agencies. A significant number of crimes are never even reported for reasons that include the victim's feeling that nothing can/will be done and the personal nature of the incident.
Source: http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html#endref6
The real picture is:
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, which includes crimes that were not reported to the police, 232,960 women in the U.S. were raped or sexually assaulted in 2006. That's more than 600 women every day. Other estimates, such as those generated by the FBI, are much lower because they rely on data from law enforcement agencies. A significant number of crimes are never even reported for reasons that include the victim's feeling that nothing can/will be done and the personal nature of the incident.
Source: http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html#endref6
Researcher
MPA (400+ posts)
It is disgusting. Whether it is true or not, it's matter of choice that what you choose to do:
1) Who will join such kind of actions in heat of moment?
or
2) You will be one of those; who try to protect ANYONE having such kind of ordeal.
1) Who will join such kind of actions in heat of moment?
or
2) You will be one of those; who try to protect ANYONE having such kind of ordeal.
