I can’t link to a source but I inferred from what I read that she was gang raped.
Since she is apparently still in a hospital recovering I must assume it was pretty physically as well as, obviously, psychologically damaging.
One isn’t hospitalized for days for a minor molestation of some kind.
I lived in Africa a good many years and the Western women in our colony were always very, very careful to dress down when going out being careful not to show much skin.
It was a known fact that the locals were offended by uncovered women. It amazes me that as much importance as the culture attaches to the burqa that Westerners simply think they can come in and dress like Western womwen do. That is like a total afront and an in your face statement.
In comes this female reporter completely oblivious to the local customs going into a hostile crowd environment and thinking that she can dictate the way it is going to be.
Mobs once gripped by mass hypnosis will do untinkable things to scapegoats.
As I said it amazes me that journalists are not a bit more careful. It also amazes me that they are making a big deal out of this but when Sarah Palin gets pummeled by daily death threats she is told to grin and bear it.
What a double standard.
My husband read something on internet yesterday (statement from her or family?) that said she was NOT raped. But I have no source or link, something he was reading online. So I am curious as the extent of the assault, as well.