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    The document reports that Egypt's military-led government has shut down several television news channels in Egypt, including channels affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Jazeera's Egyptian channel. The military accused the channels of being "pro-Morsi" and trying to incite violence after President Morsi was removed from power in a coup. A spokesman for the opposition defended the shutdown as an "exceptional measure" to prevent further instability during a "critical time of change."

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    Egypt's military-led authorities shut down several stations, including one operated by the Muslim Brotherhood, after President Mohamed Morsi was toppled by the army. The security forces on Wednesday also raided the offices of Al Jazeera's Egyptian news channel and detained at least five of its staff, said Karim El-Assiuti, one of its journalists. Four of them were later released, the channel said. The channel, Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr, was prevented from broadcasting from a pro-Morsi rally in northern Cairo and its crew there was also detained. Al Jazeera's Egyptian station began broadcasting after the 2011 revolution that topped President Hosni Mubarak and has been accused by critics of being sympathetic to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. Our correspondents reported being interrupted during a live broadcast, with presenters and guests being arrested. Muslim Brotherhood-owned Egypt25 was also forced off air and its managers arrested shortly after General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, head of Egypt's armed forces, announced a plan for a new political transition, the state news agency MENA reported. The authorities also shut down two other Islamist-run stations, Al-Hafiz and Al-Nas, security sources said. Both are affiliated to the strict Salafi Islamist movement. "We are concerned by reports that authorities are shutting down television coverage based on political perspective," said Sherif Mansour of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. "W th ilit tt d i E ti fi f ti

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