Video of the Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy being arrested for defacing a poster in the Times Square subway station on Tuesday.
An Egyptian-American columnist, who rose to prominence on social media last year for her commentary during the revolution in Egypt, was arrested in the Times Square subway station on Tuesday for spraying pink paint on a pro-Israel poster that calls Islamist opponents of the Jewish state “savage.â€
The poster was one of 10 placed in subway stations across the transit system this week, on the heels of violent and sometimes deadly protests across the Muslim world in response to an American-made video mocking the Prophet Muhammad.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority had initially rejected the ads, citing their “demeaning†language. Read more on the City Room blog.
