Al-Jazeera scribe let off on bail by Egypt

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Associated Press
Monday, January 15, 2007 (Cairo):

... An Egyptian documentary producer for Al-Jazeera, Howaida Taha, 43, was released on Sunday on a $1,750 bail by the prosecutor's offices in Cairo, her lawyer Ahmed Helmi said .... She said the video footage she was detained for was created with actors for the purpose of a documentary film about police torture in Egypt. "I filmed with the authorities permission," she said on the telephone as she was being released. Egyptian prosecutors accused Taha of "practicing activities that harm the national interest of the country; possessing and giving false pictures about the internal situation in Egypt that could undermine the dignity of the country." ...

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