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SIPA Press agency photojournalist Alfred Yaghobzadeh is treated by anti-government protesters after being wounded during clashes in Cairo. (AP)

Mubarak intensifies press attacks with assaults, detentions

February 3, 2011 12:59 PM EST

New York, February 3, 2011–Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak unleashed an unprecedented and systematic attack on international media today as his supporters assaulted reporters in the streets while security forces began obstructing and detaining journalists covering the unrest that threatens to topple his government.

Watching Egypt disappear from the Internet

January 28, 2011 3:48 PM EST

My colleague at CPJ, Mohamed Abdel Dayem, was the first to mail me. “Just a second ago,” he wrote, “about 10 contacts of mine all disappeared off instant messaging in unison. That cannot be a coincidence.”