 Aljazeera has reported that Egyptian security authorities arrested eight members of its crew preparing to cover a meeting of the General Assembly of Cairo's Judges Club. Aljazeera's correspondent Samir Omar and producer Ahmad Nour are among those arrested on Friday.
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The afternoon meeting is aimed at pressing the judges' demand that they be allowed to fully monitor the presidential elections, and is expected to announce the judges' final position on the issue of supervision of the forthcoming elections. The judges have threatened not to supervise the elections at all if they are not given full control over each step of the election process. They have also demanded the approval of a law on the independence of judicial authorities. |