A large number of media workers, including journalists, filmmakers, bloggers and others have been attacked in the past week in Egypt covering the ongoing violence and turmoil facing the country. Below is a timeline of attacks against the press: 19 November Yehia Faheem, a cameraman with the CNC production company, and Haitham Gala, his soundman, were both injured by rubber bullets while trying to covering the demonstration in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Ahmed Feteha, a reporter for the Ahram Online website, was hit while trying to cover clashes. 20 November Cairo Ahmed Abdelfatah, a photographer with the independent newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm, sustained a serious eye injury while covering demonstrations in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Tahrir Square. He was taken to the international eye hospital in Giza, where he is to undergo an operation. Mohamed Kamel of Al-Masry Al-Youm also sustained a head injury as a result of being hit by a rubber bullet. An ambulance took him to a hospital. Two other photographers with the same newspaper, Abanub Amad and Tarek Wageeh, were roughed up by the police. Omar Al-Zuhairi, a photographer with the independent daily Al-Tahrir, sustained a head injury during clashes. Mo'taz Zaki, a photographer with the same newspaper, was briefly detained. Both were covering clashes in Tahrir Square. Rasha Azab of the independent newspaper Al-Fagr, Mahmoud Al-Hefnaoui of Youm7, Amr Gamal of the Al-Hurriya wa Al-Adala website and freelancer Saad Abid were also harassed or briefly detained. Gamal was held for several hours. Alexandria Sarhan Sanara of the government daily Al-Akhbar was arrested while covering a demonstration and was held for seven hours, during which he was mistreated and beaten several times by police officers. The police also arrested Ahmad Tarek of MENA, Al-Tahrir photographer Ahmad Ramadan, the independent daily Al-Shuruq's editor, Mohamed Fouad, Al-Shuruq reporter Essam Amer and Al-Shuruq photographer Rafi Shaker. 21 November Malek Mostafa (@malek) sustained an injury to the left eye that had to be operated on. Maher Iskandar, a photographer with the daily Youm7, was injured in the leg while filming clashes in Tahrir Square. 22 November The photographer Dana Smilie (http://www.danasmillie.com/#/bio) was arrested in Cairo, taken to an army building, transferred to another one, and was interrogated for five hours before she was finally released. A Finnish TV crew was held arrested while doing a report in the Cairo district of Moqattam and was held for five hours. Its equipment was confiscated. 23 November American filmmaker Jehane Nourjaim and producer arrested shortly after “truce” near Mohamed Mahmoud street in Cairo. (she has since been released) 24 November Egyptian-American columnist Mona el-Tahawy was arrested and subjected to horrific sexual assault at the hands of the police. She detailed her detention on Twitter and a number of television interviews. French journalist Caroline Sinz was attacked and sexually assaulted by a mob of young men while covering the situation in Tahrir Square. She said the attack was intense and that she “thought I was going to die.” 25 November Bikyamasr.com reporter Nanna Sejsbo was called a spy near Abbasseya attempting to cover the pro-military rally on Friday. A group of men attempted to approach her before she jumped in her vehicle and left the scene. NOTE: A massive number of female journalists reported on Twitter of being harassed while reporting from Tahrir Square on Thursday evening and Friday. BM
