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Al Jazeera reporter detained in Germany

India Blooms News Service | | 21 Jun 2015, 08:22 pm
Berlin,June 21 (IBNS): Germany has detained a journalist Ahmed Mansour, working with Al Jazeera, at the request of the Egyptian authorities, media reports said on Sunday.

The journalist was arrested from Berlin airport.

"Mansour, a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist, was arrested at Berlin's Tegel airport at 13:20 GMT on Saturday as he tried to board a Qatar Airways flight from Berlin to Doha," Al Jazeera reported.

Al Jazeera has urged Germany to release the journalist.
"The crackdown on journalists by Egyptian authorities is well known. Our network, as the Arab world's most-watched, has taken the brunt of this. Other countries must not allow themselves to be tools of this media oppression, least of all those that respect freedom of the media as does Germany," Acting Director General of Al Jazeera network Mostefa Souag said in a reported published by the media house.

"Mansour was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison by Cairo's criminal court in 2014 on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011," reported the media house.

The journalist denied the charges.
 

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