{"id":4773,"date":"2015-05-30T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T12:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/17\/reporters-targeted-american-journalist-says-egyptian-police-urged-men-to-beat-me-up\/"},"modified":"2015-05-30T12:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-30T12:45:59","slug":"american-journalist-says-egyptian-police-urged-men-to-beat-meup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/4773","title":{"rendered":"American journalist says Egyptian police ‘urged men to beat me&nbsp;up’"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheBigPharaoh\/status\/368773483703988224\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nancyayoussef\/status\/368773880447377409\n<p>Violence against women has long been a part of the political unrest in&nbsp;Egypt, so much so that volunteers <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/11\/30\/impressive-volunteers-erect-watchtowers-to-look-out-for-sexual-assaults-in-tahrir-square\/\">set up watchtowers<\/a> in Tahrir Square and established a “Tahrir Bodyguard” Twitter account to provide escorts and respond to reports of&nbsp;assault. Now, with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/07\/05\/bbc-editor-reportedly-wounded-by-shotgun-pellets-during-bloody-friday-of-rage-in-egypt-photo\/\">violence against Western journalists<\/a> beginning to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/14\/report-reuters-photojournalist-asmaa-waguih-shot-in-egypt\/\">claim lives<\/a>, it’s an especially dangerous place for female reporters such as&nbsp;Nancy Youssef,&nbsp;Middle East Bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers. She claims police encouraged a mob to beat her up.<\/p>\n<p>Other tweets suggest that no one is safe, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/160964935\/Egypt-s-State-Information-Service-Statement-to-Foreign-Correspondents\">a statement reportedly issued by Egypt’s State Information Service<\/a> acknowledges that “Egypt is feeling severe bitterness towards some Western media coverage that is biased to the Muslim Brotherhood.”<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LizSly\/status\/368775187082125313\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/moneimpress\/status\/368832395497062401\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/knightcali\/status\/368856120778977280\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/edgiles\/status\/368720814176075776\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Geozyg\/status\/368831478823542786\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LizSly\/status\/368857762404368384<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/17\/reporters-targeted-american-journalist-says-egyptian-police-urged-men-to-beat-me-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/08\/17\/reporters-targeted-american-journalist-says-egyptian-police-urged-men-to-beat-me-up\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheBigPharaoh\/status\/368773483703988224 http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/nancyayoussef\/status\/368773880447377409 Violence against women has long been a part of the political unrest in&nbsp;Egypt, so much so that volunteers set up watchtowers in Tahrir Square and established a “Tahrir Bodyguard” Twitter account to provide escorts and respond to reports of&nbsp;assault. Now, with violence against Western journalists beginning to claim lives, it’s an especially dangerous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/4773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American journalist says Egyptian police ‘urged men to beat me&nbsp;up’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/14329575626641-egypt-21.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}