Arab Spring update: Egypt police raid Al-Jazeera office [View All]

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AFP - Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of Al-Jazeera Egypt on Thursday, confining its journalists to one room and confiscating equipment, the channel's bureau chief told AFP.

Ahmed Zain said the officers entered the channel's new premises, roughed up staff, forced them into one room and took away their identity papers.

One of the reporters, Hayat al-Yamani, asked for the security officers' identity papers but they refused and pushed her to the ground.

Police at the nearby Agouza station later refused to take her statement, Zain said.

An Al-Jazeera employee talks on the phone at the pan-Arab television channel's bureau in Cairo in January 2011. Egyptian security forces stormed the offices of Al-Jazeera Egypt on Thursday, confining its journalists to one room and confiscating equipment, the channel's bureau chief told AFP.

http://www.france24.com/en/20110929-egypt-police-raid-al-jazeera-office

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