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cali

(114,904 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2013, 12:50 PM Aug 2013

dozens of members of the press beaten and detained by Egyptian military- 3 dead.

go on defend it. after all most of the dead are just Muslim Brotherhood members. Never mind that there are women and children among those brutally murdered. Never mind that the protests were peaceful. Hell, you have to slaughter those inhuman fundamentalists to build a democracy. And brutalize the press.

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Sky News said Mick Deane, 61, was shot while covering the Egyptian government’s breakup of protest camps in Cairo, the capital, according to the Associated Press. He died soon after, AP said, citing Sky.

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Also killed Wednesday was Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a 26-year-old reporter for Xpress, a sister publication of Dubai’s Gulf News. She died near the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque.

Egyptian social media users also reported that a local photographer was shot during the clashes, but that death could not be confirmed.

At least a dozen other journalists were detained, injured or threatened Wednesday as the violence raged. The detained reporters included Reuters’ Tom Finn, who tweeted his arrest and eventual release, and Newsweek’s Mike Giglio, who wrote an account of his detention for The Daily Beast on Wednesday morning. In it, Giglio said he and several other journalists, including the freelance photographers Mahmoud Abou Zeid and Louis Jammes, were beaten in police custody after identifying themselves as journalists.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/husband-of-former-post-reporter-is-killed-in-egypt/2013/08/14/98bc06b0-04f1-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html

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dozens of members of the press beaten and detained by Egyptian military- 3 dead. (Original Post) cali Aug 2013 OP
kick cali Aug 2013 #1
it is a fucking mess arely staircase Aug 2013 #2

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)
2. it is a fucking mess
Wed Aug 14, 2013, 02:11 PM
Aug 2013

sadly I think decades of military rule have made this inevitable (or some horror inevitable.) don't take my earlier comments as support for this. But it seems Egypt has two horrific choices. Murderous military rule or murderous theocratic rule, unless something unforeseen happens. My prediction is (if not civil war) a brutal military reign (again) followed by an even more radicalized government of God botherers.

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