Al-Jazeera Says Offices Torched in Cairo

Egypt

PARIS - The offices of Al Jazeera in Cairo was attacked and burned, and hacked his website Friday, said the chain of pan-Arab television, while the top United Nations official with Human Rights' s complained that the media cover pro-democracy demonstrators Egyptian were arrested "in an apparent attempt to stifle news."

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera - widely considered the Middle East - depicts the attack on his office as an attempt by the Egyptian regime or its supporters to prevent its coverage of the insurgency in Egypt. Al-Jazeera's office was burned with equipment inside.

Many correspondents covering the bloody street fighting in Egypt, have suffered violent attacks: a Swedish journalist is recovering from being stabbed in the back, and the public Czech Television withdrew its TV crew from Egypt, because of this he called " unprecedented "attacks on journalists.

The government newspaper Al-Ahram reports on an Egyptian journalist shot in clashes earlier this week died of his wounds, the first reports of the journalist death 11 days and a wave of uncertainty in the anti-government demonstrations in Egypt.

Al-Ahram, said Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud, 36, took pictures of the fighting in the streets from the balcony of his house, not far from downtown Tahrir Square, when he was "killed by a sniper," four days ago. It is said in a statement on its Web site that he died on Friday at the hospital.