02 Aug 11 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
BBC journalist Shaimaa Khalil has been released after her arrest yesterday in Egypt. The BBC has said it is not yet clear whether she faces further action by the authorities. Reports say that Khalil, a producer at the broadcaster’s Cairo bureau, was believed to have been arrested along with over 80 people, including other journalists, after soldiers and riot police cleared a three-week sit-in in Tahrir Square. She was detained for 20 hours at a military base before being moved and later released.
02 Aug 11 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost, News and features
The BBC’s Shaimaa Khalil has been arrested in Egypt while reporting from Cairo. In her most recent tweet, Khalil said she and those with her were “OK” and on the way to see district prosecutors. She had travelled to Tahrir Square after Egyptian security forces had moved in to clear the area of protesters. In her last tweet before her arrest, Khalil noted the atmosphere was “extremely tense” and that the area was surrounded by “military”, “riot police” and “armoured vehicles”.
07 Jul 11 | Events
The Shubbak Festival — The People Demand a revolution Al-Sha`ab Yurid الشعب يريد:
Yasmine El Rashidi, former Middle East correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, talks to Index on Censorship editor Jo Glanville about the Arab Spring. El Rashidi is the author of The Battle for Egypt, an eyewitness account of the Egyptian revolution, published as an e-book by Random House. She is also contributing to a collection of writings by authors across the Arab world on the uprisings of 2011 – Al Shaab Yurid (The People Demand).
Date: 12 July 2011
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: The Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3GA
Tickets: £5 (£3 Concession)
To order a ticket, click here
Nearest tube: Farringdon
Buses: 63, 38, 19, 341, 55
30 Jun 11 | Index Index, Middle East and North Africa, minipost
Tear gas was fired at protesters in Tahrir Square this week as hundreds of Egyptians demanded faster action against former senior officials who are currently awaiting trial. On Tuesday evening, families of the 840 people killed in February’s mass protests had gathered to honour the dead. When police arrived and violence erupted, the crowds moved towards Tahrir to speak out for the “martyrs” who had been killed in the uprising.
