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Egyptian blogger arrested and prevented from covering a taxi drivers strike

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 @ 22:50 UTC

by Sami Ben Gharbia

Countries:: Egypt
Topics:: Freedom of Speech
Special:: Blogger News

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Mahmoud Chachtawi, Egyptian blogger and reporter of abna2masr.com website, has been arrested during a taxi drivers strike he was covering. After detaining him for four hours, the police released him and confiscated his camera, mobile phone and ID card. According to a twitter message left on the blog, it seems that his equipment was returned to him without the memory camera's card that had the pix of the strike.

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abna2masr

Thank you for shedding light

# 2007-09-19 at 8:01 am

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cool

do not stop keep it going today you are alone ,later there will be many

# 2007-09-24 at 1:24 am

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