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Egyptian Journalists Assaulted by Anti-Sisi Protesters in New York

September 29, 2015
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi with radio and television presenter Youssef Al Hossainy meeting in New York City

Videos that have gone viral since being posted on Monday show Muslim Brotherhood supporters verbally and physically assaulting several Egyptian journalists in New York City. The videos show the harassers in a physical altercation with media personalities Youssef Al Hosseiny and Mohammed Sherdy, as well as Wael El Ebrashy, calling out, “Here is Egypt’s dirty media” and using profane insults against them. When the NY police watches while Egyptian media delegation is assaulted by MB thugs then you know they are in on it . Land of the brave lol — Mohamed Sherdy (@msherdy) September 28, 2015 Al Hosseiny and Sherdy were together, while El Ebrashy appeared to be alone during the assault.   Al Hosseiny and Sherdy engaged in a back-and-forth with the harassers and the video shows Al Hosseiny spitting on one of the harassers, whom he later identified as Said Abbasy. Al Hosseiny tweeted that he and Sherdy were pressing charges against the harassers for “verbal assaults and death threats.” In a Skype interview with television channel Al Sharq, Abbasy later clarified that the New York Police Department detained him for two hours and then released him….


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