Police threaten, swipe camera from CNN crew in Cairo

[Turborama]

Source: CNN International

A CNN crew working to cover the clashes between security forces and protesters in Cairo felt the wrath of Egypt's police on Friday.

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.

Plainclothes police arrived, surrounded the CNN team and wanted "to haul us off," Wedeman said.

"A big struggle began," he said.

Police grabbed a camera from Rogers, cracked its viewfinder, and took the camera away. Wedeman said the police threatened to beat them.

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

[annabanana]

1. Oddly.. They are not reporting on TV WHO roughed them up. . n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. Sipa Press photographer arrested in Egypt

Author: Olivier Laurent
28 Jan 2011

Four journalists were detained, today, by Egyptian authorities, according to a statement released by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry. The journalists work for newspapers Journal du Dimanche and Le Figaro, as well as Paris-Match and Sipa Press ...

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1940402/sipa-press-photographer-arrested-egypt

[justiceischeap]

3. #Cairo airport security is detaining all activists/journalists coming in

Source: Unconfirmed @ShereefAbbas

confirmation? RT @ShereefAbbas #Cairo airport security is detaining all activists/journalists coming in

http://twitter.com/#!/stbwien/status/30975405838041088

[gratuitous]

4. How rude!

Oh, and CNN (as well as the rest of you Beltway Insiders)? If push ever comes to shove in the U.S., this is a preview of how the powers that be will treat you if your fawning coverage slips for even a moment. And quite probably even if it doesn't. You know all about the criminality going on in high government circles and the failure of those officials to police themselves. If they feel threatened in the least, they'll have no compunction about tossing you overboard.

[rabs]

5. Al Jazeera has much better coverage (IMO) than CNN

Live, and in English from Cairo.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

And thanks much for your yeoman's work on this story the past days.

:toast:

[dipsydoodle]

6. ditto

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[Turborama]

7. I agree, I'm gripped to AJ English right now

There's a live battle going on outside their office.

Thanks for the thanks! :fistbump: