Germany is helping Egypt's Dictator Al SISI by arresting journalists

It seems that the latest visit of the Egyptian dictator Al SISI has paid off after the German police today has arrested Al Jazeera's Egyptian national journalist in Berlin Ahmed Mansour. 

International lawyer Saad Djebbar told Reuters Ahmed Mansour, one of the most senior journalists on the channel's Arabic service, had been abruptly and unexpectedly arrested in Germany.

A spokesman for the German Federal Police confirmed that a 52-year-old man was arrested at Berlin's Tegel airport at 1320 GMT (9.20 a.m. EDT) following an international arrest warrant from the Egyptian authorities.

The spokesman said the general public prosecutor was now checking the man's identity, as well as a possible extradition to Egypt.

Journalist Ahmed Mansour was returning to Doha (Qatar) after he was introducing the last episode of the program "Without Borders" last Wednesday in which he hosted a senior researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Studies Guido Steinberg.

Sources:

Reuters
Aljazeera

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