Egypt’s State Information Service ''SIS'' highlighted in a Friday, a statement saying that foreign correspondents coverage for Egypt’s events and protests since the early morning. SIS issued several comments and stated it as following:
• The foreign correspondents carried out their work freely and their coverage is still ongoing. And its worth mentioning that 41 accredited Media and Press establishments submitted to SIS, requests for televised and photographic coverage for 195 journalists and photographers.
All requests were accepted and the applicants have been granted permits for completely free coverage and photo taking in all the squares and main streets of the governorates of Cairo, Giza, Qalubiya, Alexandria and Suez in accordance with international customs.
Tahrir Square
• Only one field complaint has been filed, and it involved the brief detention of 2 photojournalists near Al Istikama Mosque during Friday prayers in Giza, Mohamed El Shahed and Farid Youssef who are employed by France 2.
• There are 900 accredited representatives of foreign media outlets registered with SIS and all of them operate freely in their none photographic coverage in all parts of the republic without restrictions.
• In addition to that all visiting correspondents are still operating freely and carrying out their coverage freely; also in the past 2 days 30 visiting correspondents representing 15 foreign media and press establishments have applied for press permits and IDs to cover Friday.
Permits were issued to 15 of them, and the rest were granted permits as well even though they applied on Thursday the 26th of September.
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