FALL CHURCH, Va. (WUSA) - CBS News correspondent Lara Logan had been in plenty of danger zones before... but as she covered the mobs of protestors in Egypt's Tahrir Square on February 11, 2011, suddenly she became the target of violence.
"Our camera battery went down. And we had to stop for a moment," Logan told Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes.
Her body guard and interpreter understand what the crowd what saying and knew she was in trouble. A crowd of several hundred men encircled her, picked her up, and pull her away from her crew. She was sexually assaulted and beaten.
Logan told Pelley she feared she would die a "tortuous death" at the hands of the violent mob.
"You don't want to relive it. You don't want to remember it. You want to move on, you want to forget it. And so, her willingness to speak out is very significant," says Layli Miller-Muro, the founder of the Tahirih Justice Center which helps immigrant women and girls seeking justice from gender-based violence, like rape and genital mutilation.
"I'm sure she'll suffer in more ways in one because of it (telling the story.) But I'm sure it'll be a huge inspiration for other women," said Miller-Muro.
Speaking out about sexual violence often comes with great cost to women around the world. Woman who don't have the level of self-esteem and financial security that Logan has.
Miller-Muro says that for women in many countries, speaking out about being raped could bring them dishonor, ostracizing, prevent them from marrying, and even bring them death at the hands of unjust and draconian laws.
And even in civilized countries like the United States, people often seek to place blame on the victim of rape, Miller-Muro says. After Lara Logan's attack, some people blamed her... saying she shouldn't have been there in the first place.
"All over the world, woman are blamed for the rape that happens to them. I'm not sure why we do that. There's something in our psychology in our culture, that wants to find a reason to excuse the man. We often want to blame the victim and to find some reason that they deserve what happened to them, " said Miller-Muro.
Unfortunately, she says the blaming of victims often deters them from coming forward to report the crime.