Media: Al-Jazeera TV producer charged with "harming national interest"

Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 27 January 2007 decision by judicial authorities to initiate trial proceedings against Al-Jazeera TV producer Howayda Taha on a charge of "harming national interest" in a documentary she was preparing about police torture in Egypt.

Taha was stopped at Cairo airport as she was about to fly to Qatar. She was charged after prosecutors viewed videotapes found in her baggage that contained re-enacted scenes of torture based on the accounts of victims.

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