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Al Jazeera journalist freed as protesters organize for 14th day in Tahrir Square



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The protesters are obviously not going anywhere yet. At the same time, life in Egypt is starting to get back to normal as drivers are getting back on the roads and some businesses reopening. Al Jazeera:

Ayman Mohyeldin, an Al Jazeera correspondent who was detained while covering the unrest in Egypt, has been released.

He was seized by the Egyptian military near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday, but was freed nine hours later following a concerted appeal by the network and supporters of Mohyeldin.

There had been many calls on Twitter for the release of Mohyeldin, who has more than 20,000 followers on his page.

Dozens of journalists have been detained, injured and threated while covering events in Egypt, where hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets calling for an end to the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak, the president.


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