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Human rights watch came up with a new report indicating that thousands of people have been detained before january 28th when the police disappeared from the streets, and they say they have document the scores of arrests since then. at least seven cases of those arrests being people who were severely beaten. they believe that this has mostly been carried out by the military police, wing of the military, plain clothes military who we have seen confiscating video that journalists have filmed and photographed, also that some 302 people have been killed across the country since the protests began o...

>> and ivan, at one time -- i was listening to your reporting today from the square. it sounded like you had concern that there were some state agents or secret police actually searching for cameras. what happened? >> yeah, i'm still not sure exactly what was going on there. we have had men, plain clothes men come to this very location in the past, not showing any identification, searching our bags, searching our equipment. and questioning us in the past and asking for our identities. as i'm learning, that seems to be a bit of a norm in egypt. so when people show up banging and trying to get i...

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