Sexual Attacks on Female Journos in Cairo Continue By Aigle Middle East • November 2011 • Views: 673 In the last few days, at least two more female journalists were sexually assaulted in Cairo while covering Tahrir square protests. American-Egyptian columnist Mona Elthaway, from New York, accused the Egyptian police of beating and groping her, and of detaining her for 12 hours. The same day, French television journalist Caroline Sinz reported that she had been sexually assaulted in a way that “would be considered rape” by a mob of teenagers and adults.