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Human Rights Watch expresses increased concerns at the continuing targeting by the Egyptian authorities of journalists, human rights defenders, and youth activists, while another Al Jazeera reporter is arrested.
2011-02-6

Al Jazeera's Cairo office is stormed by "gangs of thugs" who ransack it and set it on fire as attacks on foreign journalists continue.
2011-02-4

Journalists from Al Jazeera and "The Washington Post" are arrested by Egyptian authorities; Swedish television loses contact with correspondent Bert Sundström.
2011-02-3

Journalists from Al Jazeera and the BBC are among those targeted in fresh attacks from Mubarak regime "thugs". The UK's Channel 4 News reports that Mubarak's "secret police" are threatening journalists to keep off the streets of Cairo.
2011-02-3

Al Jazeera urges Egyptian satellite company Nilesat to resume broadcasting its signal or face legal action.
2011-02-2

Al Jazeera reports that its signal is being jammed in parts of the Middle East, days after Egypt shut the news network's operations there.
2011-02-1

Al-Jazeera claims that six of its journalists are in police custody.
2011-01-31

Egypt's information minister cancels licenses and accreditation of staff working for the Al Jazeera international news network. The network's Cairo bureau office is to be shut down by the Egyptian government. An Al Jazeera spokesman describes the move as "an act designed to stifle and repress the freedom of reporting by the network and its journalists".
2011-01-30

NDP headquarters are set on fire in Cairo, with Al Jazeera footage showing the building ablaze.
2011-01-28