[Brannigan]

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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'


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.

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.

'Men had been groping me for a while, but suddenly, something shifted. I found myself being dragged from my male friend, groped all over, with increasing force and aggression.
'I screamed. I could see what was happening and I saw that I was powerless to stop it. I couldn't believe I had got into this situation.'
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. I’ve 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.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1z0n3LWcv

[Brannigan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ally-assaulted

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lag-poles.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133845...d-in-new-egypt

http://womennewsnetwork.net/2008/10/...assedcairo807/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3x3...feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGFZNd2jfR8

Word of warning to all women - DO NOT GO TO EGYPT

[james22]

That's just messed up.

[Brannigan]

(Original post by james22)
That's just messed up.

It is disgusting, it makes my stomach turn.

We all know what happened to CBS reporter Lara Logan when she travelled to this awful place

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lag-poles.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ack-Egypt.html

[Renner]

Arab men are known to have backward ideas about women, ask any of your female friends who've been to Turkey.

[Brannigan]

(Original post by Renner)
Arab men are known to have backward ideas about women, ask any of your female friends who've been to Turkey.

I have heard horror stories from many of my female friends who have been to Turkey, I hope and hope and hope that Turkey never ever joins the EU

[justmyopinions]

A girl I know went to Turkey with her friends, and a bunch of old Turkish men ran out their houses and tried to cover their legs and faces and chased them down the street After reading this I see that they were quite lucky

[EonBlueApocalypse]

(Original post by Brannigan)
I have heard horror stories from many of my female friends who have been to Turkey, I hope and hope and hope that Turkey never ever joins the EU

It's true, my friends girlfriend got groped in Turkey in a nightclub. After my friend confronted the guy and told him to "**** off" he went away then came back a minute later and tried to penetrate her with his fingers. Luckily, the bouncers of the club were switched on and threw him out.

[Dirac Delta Function]

love how this thread starts out about Arbs then immediately becomes about Turkey.

Please guys, tell me you know Turkey is not an Arab country?

[Phantom Lord]

(Original post by Renner)
Arab men are known to have backward ideas about women, ask any of your female friends who've been to Turkey.

Turkish people are not Arabs.

[Brannigan]

(Original post by Dirac Delta Function)
love how this thread starts out about Arbs then immediately becomes about Turkey.

Please guys, tell me you know Turkey is not an Arab country?

Pedanticism, it is irrelevant because Turkey is not a European country

[funsongfactory]

That poor, poor girl. These nations get our help and support in their fight for freedom, but really they're only giving freedom to the men, even though the women fought for it too.

[Dirac Delta Function]

(Original post by Brannigan)
Pedanticism, it is irrelevant because Turkey is not a European country

[Risserd]

going to tahir square as a woman alone. its kinda asking for it , in a backward country like egypt. didnt she learn from the mubarak era riots ?

[Ray Bradbury]

(Original post by AkaJetson)
Turkish people are not Arabs.

No they arent are they, so apart from all being men what do they both have in common?
Mmm?

[Brannigan]

(Original post by Ray Bradbury)
No they arent are they, so apart from all being men what do they both have in common?
Mmm?

The word he is looking for is Islam

[noisy06]

It's quite a big deal when something like this happens in Egypt, but in Britain and the United States it's a fact of life.

[Steevee]

(Original post by noisy06)
It's quite a big deal when something like this happens in Egypt, but in Britain and the United States it's a fact of life.

Excuse me?

Care to show me some recent instances of women being gang raped in broad daylight in a public gathering in Britain or the USA?

[sconter]

(Original post by noisy06)
It's quite a big deal when something like this happens in Egypt, but in Britain and the United States it's a fact of life.

lol.

[Brannigan]

(Original post by Steevee)
Excuse me?

Care to show me some recent instances of women being gang raped in broad daylight in a public gathering in Britain or the USA?

Why did you reply to him ?