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Journalists arrested at Adawiya and Nahda squares including a Reuters reporter

February 8, 2014 at 1:48 am

Egyptian security forces have arrested dozens of journalists and media professionals, both Egyptian and foreign, whilst they have been covering the crimes being committed by the military rulers against the peaceful protesters at Rabaa al-Adawiya and Nahda squares.


Among those arrested are Tom Finn, a Reuters news agency reporter in Rabaa al-Adawiya square, two photographers whose photos from their cameras were deleted, as well as a reporter and photographer from al Badeel and Mustafa Darwish, whose camera was confiscated.

The security forces also arrested Ahmad Jodeh, of Al-Jazeera in Nahda square during his coverage of the dispersal of the sits-ins.