Journalists Worldwide Protests Egypt’s Crackdown On The Press

egypt press 3In Egypt, however, journalists fear that the arrests of the Al Jazeera correspondents are just the beginning.

“There is no way you can watch that video and say it’s not incitement against the Al Jazeera journalists. The are trying to make notebooks and laptops look like spy gear!” said one journalist, who asked to be quoted anonymously as she is based in Cairo.

“First they came for them, and next they’ll come for the rest of us. That’s why it is so important that we make our voices heard now – while we still can.”

 

[The footage shows the Al Jazeera team being interrogated without the presence of a lawyer. The camera zooms in on notebooks, external hard drives, and laptops while increasingly menacing music plays in the background.]

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