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| Egypt: USA intervenes. Al jazeera reporters released |
| 2011-02-01 |
| Isn't this nice? Uncle Sugar gets the DOS to look after his boys. Egypt ''must remain open'': this is the motivation used by the United States in their request for the release of six Al Jazeera reporters who were arrested today. The six were released soon after. ''We are concerned about the closing of Al Jazeera in Egypt and about the arrest of its reporters'', the Department of State wrote in a statement. ''Egypt must remain open and the journalists must be released''. Soon after Al Jazeera announced that the journalists had been released, specifying that their cameras have been impounded. The satellite television network writes on its website that the reporters were arrested the day after its offices in Cairo were closed and its transmissions were cut off in several areas. ''This will not stop us. In fact, we are even more determined to report the news'', a spokesman of the network said |
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