PARIS (AP) — Al-Jazeera's offices in Cairo were stormed and torched and its website hacked Friday, the Pan-Arab broadcaster said, as the top U.N. human rights official complained that media covering Egyptian pro-democracy protests are being arrested "in a blatant attempt to stifle news."
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera — widely watched in the Middle East — portrayed the attack on its office as an attempt by Egypt's regime or its supporters to hinder its coverage of the uprising in Egypt. Al-Jazeera said the office was burned along with the equipment inside it.
Many correspondents covering the bloody street fights in Egypt have suffered violent attacks: a Swedish journalist is …
Комментариев нет:
Отправить комментарий