CAIRO: Egyptian police forces stormed Al Jazeera's headquarters in Cairo today. It is the second incident this month. The police forces are affiliated with the copyright investigations department of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior. They stormed the Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr bureau and beat some of the workers, according to Abdel Moeil Mahmoud, secretary to the bureau's editor-in-chief. Mahmoud said the forces justified the storming of the bureau offices on the Cornice in Cairo by saying the office has no work permit. He added that the forces beat Al Jazeera reporter Hayat el-Yamani and took her laptop. They also detained her colleague, Mohammad Suleiman. The office says it has submitted the paperwork to renew its license, but Egyptian officials have been slow to grant the permit. The same reasoning was given when security forces stormed the offices earlier this month. An Al Jazeera camera captured a video that shows the storming of the organization's offices. El-Yamani asked the plainclothes forces to leave the office, as they had no right to enter. "I called two lawyers and they told me that what is happening is meaningless and to please open the door of my office… get away from the door I hear damages inside the office," said the reporter. Two of the forces refused to be captured by the video and they still stuck to the door, refusing to allow her to enter her office. The security forces were checking her office and told the reporter that they found documents which should be confiscated; however she asked them to show her these documents.
