The Guardian: American journalist told narrowly survived an attack crowds in Tahrir

The newspaper published an article for the Cairo-based U.S. journalist of Sally Basc, told how it escaped with difficulty from a crowd that tried to assault her in Tahrir Square last Friday. Says Basc she arrived with one of her friends to Tahrir Square in ninth on the evening of Friday, and were trapped inside the field hospital, when they arrived at the edge of the field of Talaat Harb Street refusal of some men of the party constitution to allow them to enter the field, saying they can not protect them, and said to them, A men it was difficult to rescue women who are assaulted by a mob. Now inside the hospital, there was a wall behind us, relay Basc, and a fence on our left and barbed wire between the two closed the only way, she adds that her friend Gamila Ismail, a political activist stopped the driver of a ambulances working in the field and told him about the situation and try to come to one them but Ambulances were in the opposite direction of the field, and there was no room to move through the crowd. It listed American journalist how it was to save a number of women from the crowd that attempted assault, and how was the attack on some of the posts in the course of Egyptian women to change and most of them women over forty, and I talked Basc intervention men from the group Black Community to the rescue and a number of other women, said They were wearing black masks and carrying long knives and jumped over the fence located on Asarhn. Basc says it is impossible to know well who they were, but they joined protects them, and some of them tried to save a woman was stripped of her clothes in the field. The novel comes with another report published by the newspaper on exposure at least 25 women to sexual assaults in the clashes, which witnessed Tahrir Square, the activists said localities. The activists say that crowds of men surrounded women Almnazlat, and harass them and trying Tarathen, some women have been stripped of her clothes and there and one was raped. The newspaper quoted Zahra Murtaza night, a spokeswoman for one of the groups of anti-sexual harassment, which was founded in November last year to rescue the victims of the attacks in Tahrir Square, saying that last Friday was one of the worst days we have seen in terms of sexual assault. She Murtaza told the newspaper that all cases were very bad but the worst case we dealt with involved the use of a weapon white used in parts of the body of a woman who was assaulted, and dealt the group with 16 cases, while dealt group guards Liberation, a group other anti-harassment, with nine other cases, making the total cases with 25 teams received reports of nine other incidents. The woman was raped in the novel was published Liberation Terrible what happened to her on the Internet. Says The Guardian, The Who is behind these attacks is not selected, but the group against harassment believes it is organized by the oppose the protests, said Murtaza she believes that these attacks must be and it Organization because they occur in the most times in specific places in the field and using the same means. She added that the testimonies collected by similar attacks occurred in 2005, which was believed to behind are the secret police. It quoted the Guardian one of the victims of attacks, which refused to disclose the identity saying that it happens very quickly, and said, "suddenly found six men beside her hand and six others from the other side, and began Akhaddhun skin, and says that it was not just sexual assault but it appeared as if they want to hurt her. "