New Delhi: There has been a crackdown on journalists in Egypt with many being detained and their cameras, tapes and identity cards being impounded. Now microblogging site Twitter has come to the rescue of the media personnel who are in Egypt and reporting on the protests against President Hosni Mubarak. ABC Correspondent Christiane Amanpour's latest tweet says: "When I was in the presidential palace earlier, the halls were empty and...
12:18 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: The net worth of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who is under pressure to quit following a massive movement, and his family is estimated to between $ 40 billion to $ 70 billion, a media report said. 'ABC News' quoted experts as saying that the Mubarak family wealth was built largely from military contracts during his days as an air force officer. Hosni Mubarak, a former air chief who was...
11:45 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Two weeks ago, angry, disenfranchised and energized Egyptians emerged from Friday prayers, took to the streets and chanted, "Freedom!"
11:34 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: CNN-IBN video journalist Rajesh Bhardwaj was detained for a second time by the Egyptian Army on Thursday as he was returning to his hotel after being released by authorities after four hours of questioning. His camera has also been confiscated. Bhardwaj after his release said, "Army seized my phone, passport and camera. They switched off my mobile phone and locked me inside. I requested them to allow me to...
11:15 AM, Feb 04, 2011
CNN and State TV journalists who were attacked by the army in Egypt talk about their experience. ...
10:33 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts the attacks on journalists covering the unrest in Egypt. ...
09:24 AM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo, Egypt: One week ago, angry, disenfranchised and energized Egyptians emerged from Friday prayers, took to the streets and chanted, "Freedom!" "We want (Mubarak) to leave," said one 19-year-old man hours after the intense day of protests. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is not gone, but his days are numbered. The leader agreed Tuesday to not seek re-election in September. He told ABC News Thursday he would like to step down...
08:47 AM, Feb 04, 2011
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11:49 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: Protesters and regime supporters fought in a second day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square while new lawlessness spread around the city. New looting and arson erupted, and gangs of thugs supporting President Hosni Mubarak attacked reporters, foreigners and rights workers while the army rounded up foreign journalists. The government increasingly spread an image that foreigners were fueling the turmoil and supporting the tens of thousands in...
11:25 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Paris: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Thursday said that the failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has helped fuel unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Mideast. During a visit to Paris, Fayyad said protesters' complaints stem not only from internal problems in their own societies, but also from "a frustration, a desperation because of the failure of efforts to solve the Palestinian problem." Fayyad spoke during a news...
10:49 PM, Feb 03, 2011
The media crews reporting from Cairo faced trouble from allegedly pro Mubarak protestors. ...
10:36 PM, Feb 03, 2011
CNN-IBN spoke to Fareed Zakaria, Editor-at-Large, TIME magazine on the Egypt unrest. ...
09:51 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's state television has reported that the vice president has said President Hosni Mubarak's son will not seek to succeed his father in elections later this year, the latest concession to anti-government protesters. It was widely believed that Mubarak was grooming his son Gamal, 46, to succeed him despite significant public opposition. Egypt's state news agency has also reported that the prosecutor-general has banned travel and frozen the bank...
08:26 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: Amid the political turmoil and chaos in Egypt, foreign journalists have become targets of rampaging mobs, mostly aligned with embattled President Hosni Mubarak. Journalists became targets, beaten, bloodied, harassed and detained by raging men, most all in some way aligned with President Mubarak, CNN, ABC News and other media outlets reported. They said members of their staffs had been attacked, most on the streets of Cairo on Wednesday, a...
07:59 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: A 26-year-old woman worried about the state of her country wrote on Facebook: "People, I am going to Tahrir Square". The message was soon to snowball into a movement to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Facebook appeal by Asmaa Mahfouz led to popular protests that saw tens of thousands congregating at Tahrir Square to demand an end to Mubarak's unbridled 30-year rule. Mubarak has said he is ready...
07:08 PM, Feb 03, 2011
CNN-IBN video journalist Rajesh Bhardwaj was taken into preventive custody in Cairo. ...
06:45 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: CNN-IBN video journalist Rajesh Bhardwaj was taken into preventive custody in Cairo on Thursday and his identity card and tapes burnt. Bhardwaj along with some other media personnel was reportedly taken into custody by the Egyptian Army but released after some time. Bhardwaj was shooting the anti-Hosni Mubarak protests at Tahrir Square in Cairo when the Army took him into custody. However, Bhardwaj said after his release that those...
06:14 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's prime minister has apologised for the attack by regime supporters on anti-government protesters in central Cairo, vowing to investigate who was behind it. The protesters accuse the regime of sending a force of paid thugs and policemen in civilian clothes to attack them with rocks, sticks and firebombs to crush their movement to oust President Hosni Mubarak. Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has told state TV, "I offer my...
05:16 PM, Feb 03, 2011
Nicosia: Some 350 people working for the United Nations in Egypt will be evacuated to Cyprus because of security concerns in the country, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission on the Mediterranean island said on Thursday. Rolando Gomez said two UN chartered aircraft will each conduct two round-trip flights from Cyprus's Larnaca airport to Cairo on Thursday to collect staff and their family. "The staff will be temporarily relocated...
04:49 PM, Feb 03, 2011
