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Egypt's Security Bodies fail to maintain security
Yet manage to oppress press freedom Kidnapping Al-Jazeera Reporter: A Message to Free Media Cairo- 27 April 2006 Cairo- 27 April 2006 The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo) strongly condemns and the arrest of Hussein Abdel Ghani, al-Jazeera correspondent and the Cairo Bureau Chief , early this morning by security authorities, for broadcasting news on the recent Sinai terrorist attacks charging him with broadcasting false news. Egyptian state security authorities have kidnapped Abdel Ghani using the same means it uses in similar cases. Some security men had asked Abdel Ghani to talk to him privately while he was in a hotel in the governorate of Sinai to discover that he was being detained by anonymous persons who refused to allow him to change the sports clothes that he was wearing. He was transported immediately to Cairo. "Kidnapping Hussein Abdel Ghani is a confirmation of the security bodies' failure to keep security in Egypt, as well as a massage for those who seek to bring this failure to light" said Gamal Eid, HRinfo's Executive Director. The kidnapping of Abdel Ghani and charging him with false charges comes in consistency with the police crackdown on Egyptian journalists and reporter, of which Al-Jazeera has also suffered as a result of its persistence to provide its viewers with the news on the spot, regardless of the government's satisfaction and in accordance to the people's right to the know the truth. "The government keeps confirming that its promises for a free press are false. If the government is serious with its commitments, it should at least release Hussein Abdel Ghani and freeze all cases against freedom of publishing and media in order to show its good intentions," Eid added. |
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