Police threaten, swipe camera from CNN crew in Cairo

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By the CNN Wire Staff
January 28, 2011 -- Updated 1246 GMT (2046 HKT)

Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- ... CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman said he and photojournalist Mary Rogers were under an overpass and behind a column as protesters and police were clashing ...

Police grabbed a camera from Rogers, cracked its viewfinder, and took the camera away ...

In a separate incident, four French journalists were arrested in Cairo, said Bernard Valero, a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry, but details of their arrest were not immediately available ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/28/egypt.cairo.incident/