EGYPT: Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Cairo & reporter arrested by security forces

[Turborama]

Source: LA Times

February 5, 2011



The chief of Al Jazeera's Arabic-language bureau in the Egyptian capital has been arrested along with a reporter from the same channel, the Qatar-based news network reported early Saturday morning.

"Egypt's security services have arrested Al Jazeera bureau chief in Cairo Abdel Fattah Fayed and the journalist Ahmed Yousef," Al Jazeera said on its website.

This comes a day after a group of unidentified men stormed the Cairo offices of the pan-Arab news channel, starting a fire and smashing equipment.

Al Jazeera reportedly http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gnO1ruOI8_OWpfwoL9YmD0eTZUNA?docId=CNG.dd44e6d1778e89bd83fae9c562893653.1f1">also said that nine of its journalists were detained on Friday amid a huge rally against President Hosni Mubarak and that its broadcast signal faced "unprecedented levels of interference."

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/02/egypt-alaa-aswany-novelist-mubarak-demonstrations-book-tahrir-.html

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1. All of the reporters there have my admiration.

They're primary targets at this point. One has been killed and a lot have been threatened, beaten up, snatched up and held for a time, threatened with decapitation....my hat is off to all of them. And my gratitude to them for putting themselves in danger to show this historic, courageous and remarkable revolution to the world.

[L. Coyote]

2. Now Released

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[Turborama]

3. Thanks for the reminder, will do next time

I'm off to crash out but will add cross posts as and when.

Thanks a lot for all your hard work keeping that excellent blog going on here everyday. :fistbump: :hi: