A BBC reporter in Cairo has accused police forces of threatening to kill her while covering protests by Muslim Brotherhood supporters commemorating the 2011 uprising.
On her Twitter account, Orla Guerin tweeted at 3:05 pm, “In Ain Shams where police searching for brotherhood protestors. Cop in plain clothes says if we keep filming we will be shot. #Cairo”
The tweet was retweeted over 1,000 times.
Another journalist Esther Meerman was arrested around 4 pm, when she was Downtown in Borsa, away from protests in an empty street while she was recording a voice over. The police accused her of taking pictures with her voice recorder and was released two hours later, according to her tweet.
Egypt ranked sixth place among the 10 worst jailers of journalists in 2014, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists in 2014. Eleven journalists were killed on duty since the January 2011 uprising.
In related news, the Health Ministry said 16 people were killed in protests in a number of provinces, with 13 counted dead in Cairo alone.
