Photographers Beaten, Robbed as Pro-Mubarak Gangs Turn on Press (Update) | PDNPulse

Update: This story was first  posted February 2, 5:23pm EST. We updated the story after a phone interview with LA Times photographer Michael Robinson Chavez at  5:55 pm. At least two photographers were beaten and their gear stolen as roughly a thousand su

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“Other photographers have lost their [memory] cards,” photographer Dominic Nahr, who is on assignment in Cairo for Time, told PDN. Other photographers were punched or struck by flying rocks.