In Tahrir Square yesterday a man suggested we worked for al-Jazeera. The Qatari news channel is seen as sympathetic to the Brotherhood; some of its journalists arrested in December have been accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation. An angry crowd quickly formed around us. ‘You traitor, you pig,’ a veiled woman shouted at me. She pulled my hair and grabbed at my scarf, choking me. The police intervened; I showed my press pass. They took us away to a building just off the square and told us to hide there for an hour until the crowd calmed down. - See more at: lrb.co.uk/blog/2014/01/26/nadine-marroushi/in-tahrir-square-4/#sthash.lrJpNIgv.O4jMXg9j.dpuf
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:36:39 +0000
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