CAIRO, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Egyptian officials detained a producer for Arab news network Al Jazeera accusing him of being a member of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, officials said.
Mahmoud Hussein, who is Egyptian but moved to Qatar where Al Jazeera is based after the network closed its Cairo bureau, was detained at the airport when he arrived home for a vacation stay. Network officials said he was questioned for 15 hours on Tuesday, then released.