Police ban journalists entry to Tanta Flax and Oil Co

Police banned Al-Masry Al-Youm (E) journalist Joseph Mayton today from entering the Tanta Flax and Oil Company to cover the ongoing strike. Police agents stopped the traffic in front of the factory’s compound in Mit Hebeish and shoved Joey and the other journalist into a microbus that dropped them off in the city of Tanta later.

I received a phone call however shortly after 3pm from one of the workers saying the microbus driver was detained, and that the police is freaking out about the sudden media attention to the 31-day-old strike, and is now searching for Joey and his colleague.

UPDATE: Here’s a blog posting by Joseph on what happened today…

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