cnn's camera was violently snatched away and systemically smashed. our footage taken. >> we took the woman to one side of the table and closed the table off again to try to intervene between the minders and her, but they came -- i think over the table or around and wrestled me and some others to the ground, throwing punches, being quite violent. in another brazen display of brutality, much feared by regime opponents and rarely seen by reporters, a bag is put over the woman's head and she is led away. >> are you okay? >> no. no. >> reporter: a little later, she was man handled out of the hotel.