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Egypt protester killed in Suez: witnesses
Egyptians carried the body of a protester through Suez on Friday after clashes with police
- Agencies
- Published: 18:46 January 28, 2011
- Image Credit: AP
- Egyptians take pictures with their cellphones of a burning police station set ablaze by rioters near the Sultan Hassan al-Rifai mosque in central Cairo
Suez, Egypt: Egyptians carried the body of a protester through Suez on Friday after clashes with police who withdrew from central areas of the eastern city leaving some main streets to demonstrators, a Reuters witness said.
“They have killed my brother,” shouted one of the demonstrators.
Meanwhile, a BBC reporter said he was badly beaten by Cairo police who he accused of targeting foreign journalists covering anti-government protests in the Egyptian capital.
“They were targeting journalists deliberately,” said Assad Sawey, who sported a bloodied bandage on his head as he spoke to BBC World television in Cairo.
“They took my camera away and when they arrested me they started beating me up with steel bars... like the ones used here for slaughtering animals,” he said.
“They used electric bars to electrify me,” he said.
Sawey said that several foreign journalists covering the same demonstration in central Cairo were also arrested: “They were all loaded onto trucks and were removed to somewhere unknown.”
It was not clear if these were four French journalists arrested Friday in the city. They were held for about an hour before being released.
An AFP photographer said Cairo police confiscated his camera’s memory card that contained pictures of protestors confronting security forces.
France’s Foreign Ministry says Egyptian police have released four French journalists detained while covering violent unrest in Cairo.
Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero confirmed French media reports saying that the four - for daily Le Figaro, weeklies Paris Match and Journal du Dimanche, and photo agency Sipa Press - were freed.
Valero said he didn’t immediately have further details, such as whether the journalists were mistreated while in custody Friday.
Sipa and Le Figaro said earlier that it had lost contact with their journalists after they were arrested.
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