Five journalists working for the English-language service of Al-Jazeera arrested

Five journalists (Egyptian and foreign) working for the English-language service of the Qatar-based television station Al-Jazeera were arrested at the Cairo hotel where they were staying. They had just returned from a reporting mission and were trying to transmit their video material to the station from a laptop. They were released after being questioned at the hotel for an hour and a half but their cameras and recordings were seized.
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Updated on 20.01.2016