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Looks I like I was not the only reporter to get manhandled or threatened by the DistrictS site crew.

Here’s what happened to The Daily Star:

And here are some tweets from Reuters journalist, Oliver Holmes:

@habib_b I can tell you what they did. Just took a bunch of photos. (also got the mandatory arm attack by one of the builders)
— Oliver Holmes (@olireports) May 15, 2013

@habib_b Look at photos on previous tweets. Saw 3 bulldozers working to remove ruins. Took a picture from the side and a builder grabbed me.
— Oliver Holmes (@olireports) May 15, 2013

 

@habib_b he radioed other men but managed to get away.
— Oliver Holmes (@olireports) May 15, 2013

 

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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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