{"id":23925,"date":"2018-12-01T12:25:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23925"},"modified":"2018-12-01T12:25:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:25:53","slug":"family-says-egypt-arrested-brit-for-military-chopper-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23925","title":{"rendered":"Family says Egypt arrested Brit for military chopper video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1414031\/middle-east\" readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egyptian authorities arrested a 19-year-old British tourist over a video he filmed on his cellphone that showed a military helicopter in the background, his family said on Friday.<br \/>Libyan-British Muhammed Fathi AbulKasem\u2019s arrest took place shortly after he arrived in Egypt\u2019s coastal city of Alexandria on Nov. 21 from neighboring Libya, his cousin Shareen Nawaz said. Egypt\u2019s Foreign Ministry couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for comment. The UK\u2019s Foreign Office confirmed the arrest of a Briton in Alexandria, but didn\u2019t elaborate.<br \/>\u201cWe didn\u2019t hear from him until 12 hours later,\u201d Nawaz said. \u201cHe basically told us he is held on suspicion of collecting information against the military.\u201d He filmed the video while his flight was landing, capturing a military helicopter flying by, she added.<br \/>Speaking from Manchester in the UK, Nawaz told The Associated Press that authorities checked her cousin\u2019s phone at the airport after being cautioned by his hotel\u2019s staff that his booking appeared \u201csuspicious,\u201d without elaborating.<br \/>According to Nawaz, Abulkasem faced a court three times over the past week and that a lawyer was assigned to his case but later quit. His mother, Amaal Rafiq, confirmed his arrest in a Facebook post.<br \/>Taking unauthorized photographs or footage of or near military facilities, equipment or personnel is strictly prohibited in Egypt.<br \/>\u201cWe all have one of those landing videos on our phones,\u201d Nawaz said. \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have military helicopters in public spaces if this is what will happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egyptian authorities arrested a 19-year-old British tourist over a video he filmed on his cellphone that showed a military helicopter in the background, his family said on Friday.Libyan-British Muhammed Fathi AbulKasem\u2019s arrest took place shortly after he arrived in Egypt\u2019s coastal city of Alexandria on Nov. 21 from neighboring Libya, his cousin Shareen Nawaz&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}