Egypt police target reporters (Ynet)

[struggle4progress]

Group says Egyptian security forces mark new target to attack: Members of foreign press

Roi Simyoni
Published: 01.29.11, 22:26 / Israel News

The BBC television network has announced that it will submit an official protest to the Egyptian authorities after one of its correspondents was attacked by security forces in Cairo, British newspaper The Guardian reported Saturday.


Asad Al Sawi, who was covering the unrest in Cairo, presented himself as a BBC reporter when he was surrounded by police, but it did not stop them from repeatedly beating him on the head with batons and steel bars.


Al Sawi was not the only member of the foreign press to be assaulted in Egypt in recent days. In fact, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that Egyptian police have marked a new target for physical assault: Foreign journalists covering the protests that aim to topple President Hosni Mubarak's government.

An Associated Press photographer was beaten early in the upheaval, and on Friday Egyptian police assaulted CNN correspondents and confiscated their equipment ...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4020838,00.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. We had a film crew

where I go dancing Thursday night making a documentary. I asked out of curiousity how much the camera gear was and was gobsmacked at the answer. Aside from the journalists and their cameramen a fair amount of film kit got busted up by the police in Cairo over the past few days too.

[saras]

2. Worst possible move in the big picture

It's hard to think of anything they could do that would more loudly scream "we're wrong and we know it perfectly well" than this.