Sat Jul 20, 2013 23:04:09
Egyptian security forces have stormed the office of al-Alam Channel in Cairo, arresting its director Ahmad al-Siyoufi, al-Alam correspondent reports.
The security forces also confiscated the Channel’s equipment on Saturday without giving any explanations on these measures, our correspondent added.
Al-Alam Cairo office was also raided and damaged during the rule of former dictator Hosni Mubarak. It is the second time in which al-Alam’s staff in Cairo faces such harassments aimed at silencing alternative voices and preventing the broadcast of reality.
Egypt's military-led authorities have shut down several stations, including one operated by the Muslim Brotherhood, after former president, Mohamed Morsi, was toppled by the army.
On July 3, Egyptian security forces raided the offices of al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr news channel, and detained at least five of its staff.
Al-Jazeera's Egyptian station began broadcasting after the 2011 revolution that ousted the country's former dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
Since then it has been accused by Egypt’s opposition of being sympathetic to Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood political party.
Muslim Brotherhood-owned Egypt25 was also forced off the air and its managers were arrested shortly after General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's army chief, announced that Morsi and his government were no longer in office.
The authorities also shut down two other stations, al-Hafiz and al-Nas, after Morsi was overthrown.
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