The killings were officially attributed to "rogue" intelligence ministry agents.
I had been in Cairo only two weeks before interior ministry agents burst through the door of my hotel room, that of my colleague and producer Mohamed Fahmy, and into the home of al-Jazeera's second producer Baher Mohamed.
Despite efforts by the Yemeni Interior Ministry to curb torture in its prisons, the department said, there were also reports that ministry agents "routinely" used of torture to extract confessions from criminal defendants.
The next day, interior ministry agents raided the magazine's Moscow bureau and trained water cannons on the staff.
The Saudi Embassy in Washington said in a statement that the true buyer was the Ministry of Culture in Abu Dhabi, where the painting will hang in a newly opened branch of the Louvre, and that Prince Bader was, in fact, the ministry's agent.
There are no clear definitions of what constitutes a state secret in China, yet once the ministry's agents invoke state security, Chinese citizens who have been detained no longer have the right to consult a lawyer -- or anyone at all.
The ministry said agents had foiled plots to attack Saudi officials, civilians and journalists.
As a regional leader for World Vision, Daniel does extensive training for pastors and Christian leaders across Africa, lifting up a vision for the church to engage in holistic ministry as an agent of transformation and reconciliation for the continent of Africa.
The ministry said its agents kept track of him as he entered the country in August and arrested him when he tried to carry out his mission.
On Tuesday, many gawkers attributed the fire to conspirators inside the ministry or to agents of the country's feared state security service, which was officially dissolved March 15.
