Egypt 'unsafe for women'

A media watchdog has advised news organisations to stop sending women to Egypt after two reports of sex attacks on female journalists.

Reporters Without Borders said a French journalist was the latest victim, attacked by men in street clothes while she worked in the capital, Cairo. That followed a sexual assault on prominent Egyptian-born US columnist Mona Eltahawy who was detained for 12 hours by security forces.

Reporters Without Borders said “there is no other solution” but to hold off on sending female journalists to Egypt. In February, CBS television correspondent Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by a frenzied mob.