Egypt: Al-Jazeera Reporter And Cameraman Arrested And Questioned By Authorities for Reporting On Farm Workers; Recording Confiscated

Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)

30 January 2008

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Egyptian authorities to stop harassing reporter Howayda Taha of the pan-Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, who was arrested on 28 January 2008 together with her cameraman while doing a report on farm workers in Nikla, a village near Giza (20 km southwest of Cairo).