DOHA – Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite television channel banned since last weekend from operating in Egypt, said Friday its offices in Cairo have been attacked. “Unknown persons came into the Al-Jazeera bureau in Cairo and destroyed equipment inside,” the Doha-based channel said in a statement, without giving details.
Last Sunday, the Egyptian information ministry ordered Al-Jazeera – which has given saturation coverage to the ongoing protests in Cairo – to halt operating in Egypt, and stripped its staff of their credentials. Attacks on foreign news media in Cairo, including arrests and violent assaults, have intensified this week as Mubarak rejects protesters’ demands to immediately stand down after three decades in power.
