![]() ![]() There were earlier reports that El-Mola had been kidnapped by supporters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. Egyptian security forces killed at least 30 people when they cleared a camp of Cairo protesters who were demanding the reinstatement of Mursi, his Muslim Brotherhood movement said. She added: “ The Egyptian government must also be held accountable by the international community for any deaths or attacks that deliberately targeted media workers.” Riot police gather during clashes with members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, around Cairo University and Nahdet Misr Square, where they were camping in Giza, south of Cairo on Aug. “We fully support the right of the Muslim Brotherhood and any other political group in Egypt to peacefully express their grievances, but we implore them and the government to refrain from attacking innocent civilians and journalists.” “Journalists are neutral parties in conflicts and should not be the target of violence, regardless of who is perpetrating it,” IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie said. Witnesses told IPI that reporters and photojournalists appeared to be targeted by both sides during the clashes. In Aswan, Mahmoud El-Mola of the independent daily ElMasry ElYoum, was among several journalists wounded and hospitalised after government forces moved in to remove protesters from a government building in the southern city, the Egypt coordinator for the London-based Media Diversity Institute told IPI. ![]() ![]() That would bring to a least three the number of journalists killed in Egypt this year. Michael Deane, 59, a cameraman for Britain’s Sky News, was shot dead while covering a police crackdown in Cairo, while the Gulf News in the United Arab Emirates reported that Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, a reporter for its sister publication the Xpress, was shot and killed in Cairo, where early news reports said dozens of people were killed in clashes with security forces. The International Press Institute today urged Egyptian security forces and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to refrain from targeting journalists amid reports that at least two media workers were killed and many more wounded during violent clashes between the authorities and the opposition. ![]()
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