30/01/2014
Egypt vs Al Jazeera: Regime?s arrest of 20 journalists from Qatar-backed channel for conspiring with ...
Following the toppling of Mohamed Morsi last summer, thousands of his Islamist supporters remained camped out in two tent cities on either side of Cairo. Why, they often asked visiting international reporters, were there no Egyptian journalists covering their protest? From their point of view, there only ever appeared to be one major Arab network broadcasting from the camp ? the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera. This week the network appeared to be paying the price for its devotion to reporting the story of Egypt?s embattled Islamists. On Wednesday the Egyptian authorities referred 20 of the network?s reporters to trial in a case which human rights groups have warned will pose a serious threat to...
