Conley
06-29-2012, 01:20 PM
CNN reports that 21-year-old Natasha Smith, a graduate student in international journalism at University College Falmouth, was attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday amid celebrations marking the announcement of the results of Egypt's historic presidential election. The atmosphere was overwhelmingly festive, with jubilant Egyptians smiling, waving and cheering as fireworks burst in the sky above. "Welcome to Egypt!" was a common refrain heard among the thronging crowd as Smith recorded it all for her film. But the mood soon darkened as a large group of men began groping her. She was violently separated from her male colleague as she futilely attempted to safely stow her camera in her rucksack.
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"Men began to rip off my clothes," she wrote. "I was stripped naked... These men, hundreds of them, had turned from humans to animals. Hundreds of men pulled my limbs apart and threw me around. They were scratching and clenching my breasts and forcing their fingers inside me in every possible way... 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."
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She then had to endure another humiliating ordeal as multiple local hospitals refused to treat her after making intrusive inquiries about her marital status and virginity.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/327574#ixzz1zCvsbXos
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"Men began to rip off my clothes," she wrote. "I was stripped naked... These men, hundreds of them, had turned from humans to animals. Hundreds of men pulled my limbs apart and threw me around. They were scratching and clenching my breasts and forcing their fingers inside me in every possible way... 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."
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She then had to endure another humiliating ordeal as multiple local hospitals refused to treat her after making intrusive inquiries about her marital status and virginity.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/327574#ixzz1zCvsbXos