Egyptian journalists feel the pressure

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Anchor Marco Werman reports on Egyptian journalist Shahira Amin, who resigned from her job yesterday at Nile TV, the Egyptian state television channel. Shahira says she could no longer work there because she'd been forced to keep some facts from the public.

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