The international press is the subject of arrests, assaults and threats in Egypt, which led the U.S. to demand the release of the informants and European leaders described as "unacceptable" attacks against these professionals. The numbers of journalists arrested at Cairo vary each time on a day when they participated in the assault and intimidation of informants and in which supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, surrounded the Ramses Hilton hotel downtown in search of foreign correspondents were staying there, witnesses said.
Foreign journalists reported a serious deterioration in working conditions at the deteriorating security conditions, and so today there were attacks on the workforce in the vicinity of Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the demonstrations against the Mubarak regime. At the time, computers are confiscated media and the office in Cairo's Al-Jazeera television channel is occupied by the authorities.
In this situation, the White House condemned the "treatment of journalists in Egypt working in the coverage of the unrest, and stressed that" the detainees should be released "and branded as" unacceptable "the" systematic marking "of informants . Previously, the U.S. State Department had described the attacks against the international press of "concerted campaign of intimidation to interfere with their work.
European leaders also claimed that "the attacks on journalists are totally unacceptable," a joint statement signed by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, the head of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British prime ministers, David Cameron, and Italian President Silvio Berlusconi.
In Madrid, at the end of the XXIII Spanish-Germanic summit, Merkel denounced the difficulties of journalists to report freely and said the president and the Egyptian government must take responsibility for the media to report. In the same vein, the head of EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, considered "unacceptable" to the intimidation and attacks against reporters.
The Government of Canada requested the Egyptian government "to protect peaceful demonstrators and journalists from further attacks." A sentencing for violent acts that are being informants allegedly committed by Mubarak supporters joined the organization that defends press freedom Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
"This outbreak of violence against media professionals, he pointed out is particularly repulsive. Arrived to cover the events in Egypt, several have been directly attacked by supporters of the chief of police and infiltrators. "Amnesty International also denounced the arrest of reporters, stressing that" the Egyptian authorities should ensure the protection of protesters, journalists and human rights activists.
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Foreign journalists reported a serious deterioration in working conditions at the deteriorating security conditions, and so today there were attacks on the workforce in the vicinity of Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the demonstrations against the Mubarak regime. At the time, computers are confiscated media and the office in Cairo's Al-Jazeera television channel is occupied by the authorities.
In this situation, the White House condemned the "treatment of journalists in Egypt working in the coverage of the unrest, and stressed that" the detainees should be released "and branded as" unacceptable "the" systematic marking "of informants . Previously, the U.S. State Department had described the attacks against the international press of "concerted campaign of intimidation to interfere with their work.
European leaders also claimed that "the attacks on journalists are totally unacceptable," a joint statement signed by the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, the head of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British prime ministers, David Cameron, and Italian President Silvio Berlusconi.
In Madrid, at the end of the XXIII Spanish-Germanic summit, Merkel denounced the difficulties of journalists to report freely and said the president and the Egyptian government must take responsibility for the media to report. In the same vein, the head of EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, considered "unacceptable" to the intimidation and attacks against reporters.
The Government of Canada requested the Egyptian government "to protect peaceful demonstrators and journalists from further attacks." A sentencing for violent acts that are being informants allegedly committed by Mubarak supporters joined the organization that defends press freedom Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
"This outbreak of violence against media professionals, he pointed out is particularly repulsive. Arrived to cover the events in Egypt, several have been directly attacked by supporters of the chief of police and infiltrators. "Amnesty International also denounced the arrest of reporters, stressing that" the Egyptian authorities should ensure the protection of protesters, journalists and human rights activists.
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