Attacks on journalists and the press:
Al Jazeera was either being blocked or hacked into in the US this morning, making it impossible for thousands of US residents to access the critical news network.You could still access Al Jazeera's livestream on their facebook page. Back up and running at around noon. ab
Media headlines all saying pro-Mubarak
thugs were attacking journalists:
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists accused the Egyptian
government of orchestrating attacks on reporters in an attempt to deprive the
world of independent information about the unrest. Paris-based Reporters
Without Borders said "infiltrated policemen" had joined the assaults.
The Egyptian government has used "blanket censorship, intimidation, and today a series of deliberate attacks on journalists carried out by pro-government mobs," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, Middle East and North Africa program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
CPJ cited a report by independent daily Al-Shorouk in Cairo that men described as "plainclothes police" attacked their headquarters Wednesday, injuring two reporters and smashing a camera.
There were reported physical assaults on journalists for the BBC, , CNN, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Danish TV2 News, Swiss television, Turkey's Fox TV and Russia's Zvezda television channel. Two Associated Press correspondents and another for Switzerland's Le Temps and France's La Voix du Nord newspapers were also roughed up.
"We strongly condemn these attacks and urge all parties to refrain from violence against journalists, local or foreign, who are simply trying to cover these demonstrations and clashes for the benefit of the public," Anthony Mills, press freedom manager for Vienna-based IPI, said in a statement.
The Egyptian government has used "blanket censorship, intimidation, and today a series of deliberate attacks on journalists carried out by pro-government mobs," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, Middle East and North Africa program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists.
CPJ cited a report by independent daily Al-Shorouk in Cairo that men described as "plainclothes police" attacked their headquarters Wednesday, injuring two reporters and smashing a camera.
There were reported physical assaults on journalists for the BBC, , CNN, Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, Danish TV2 News, Swiss television, Turkey's Fox TV and Russia's Zvezda television channel. Two Associated Press correspondents and another for Switzerland's Le Temps and France's La Voix du Nord newspapers were also roughed up.
"We strongly condemn these attacks and urge all parties to refrain from violence against journalists, local or foreign, who are simply trying to cover these demonstrations and clashes for the benefit of the public," Anthony Mills, press freedom manager for Vienna-based IPI, said in a statement.
(Thanks to David Lawson for sending this in)
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