clearvision Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 AFP:A US reporter for ABC News was beaten by thugs armed with clubs early Thursday while covering the unrest in Bahrain, the US network reported.Correspondent Miguel Marquez was caught in the crowd and attacked while covering protests in Manama, ABC said.Marquez, who said he was not badly injured, was clubbed while he was on the phone with his headquarters in New York describing the scene as riot police stormed through a Manama square in the dark in a harsh crackdown on anti-regime protesters."No! No! No! Hey! I'm a journalist here!" he yelled while still on the phone. "I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! ... I'm hit."He said that the thugs pulled his camera out of his hands."I just got beat rather badly by a gang of thugs," Marquez said in a later call to ABC headquarters. "I'm now in a marketplace near our hotel where people are cowering in buildings." ------Reporter covering reporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 "gang of thugs" Just yearning to be free and looking for their inalienable right to access Twitter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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