{"id":25242,"date":"2011-08-02T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25242"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:52:26","slug":"egypt-bbc-journalist-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25242","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: BBC journalist detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s Shaimaa Khalil has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontlineclub.com\/blogs\/danielbennett\/2011\/08\/bbc-journalist-detained-in-egypt.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">arrested<\/a> in Egypt while reporting from Cairo. In her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Shaimaakhalil\/status\/98346971726749696\">most recent tweet<\/a>, Khalil said she and those with her were &#8220;OK&#8221; and on the way to see district prosecutors.\u00a0She had travelled to Tahrir Square after Egyptian security forces had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424053111904292504576482563347097284.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter\">moved in<\/a> to clear the area of protesters. \u00a0In her\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Shaimaakhalil\/status\/98104772896366592\">last tweet<\/a>\u00a0before her arrest, Khalil noted the atmosphere was &#8220;extremely tense&#8221; and that the area was surrounded by &#8220;military&#8221;, &#8220;riot police&#8221; and &#8220;armoured vehicles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s Shaimaa Khalil has been arrested in Egypt while reporting from Cairo. In her\u00a0most recent tweet, Khalil said she and those with her were &#8220;OK&#8221; and on the way to see district prosecutors.\u00a0She had travelled to Tahrir Square after Egyptian security forces had\u00a0moved in to clear the area of protesters. \u00a0In her\u00a0last tweet\u00a0before her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585,581],"tags":[7376,3511,3591,3592],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79177,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25242\/revisions\/79177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}