Al Jazeera journalists, including Canadian, detained for 15 days in Cairo Egypt's general prosecutor on Tuesday detained several journalists, including a Canadian, for 15 days for broadcasting graphics on the Qatar-based Al Jazeera channel that allegedly damaged the country's reputation. The prosecutor's statement on Tuesday said the journalists belonged to a "media network" that was led by a Brotherhood member but did not say how many were arrested. The leader of the "media network" is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood with dual Egyptian-Canadian nationalities, the prosecutor's statement said. "He used the suites in the hotel as a media centre to collect graphics, manipulate them ... and create new scenes that contradict reality then broadcast them through Al Jazeera and CNN with the aim of harming Egypt's reputation abroad," it said. Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, the English-language bureau chief for Al Jazeera in Egypt, is a Canadian believed to also hold Egyptian citizenship. He was taken into custody late on Sunday from a suite at the Marriot Hotel, along with three of his colleagues: Peter Greste, an Australian journalist, and two Egyptians who were identified as producer Baher Mohamed and cameraman Mohamed Fawzy. Al Jazeera had said on Monday that the Egyptian security forces arrested four journalists from its English-language news service in Cairo after the Interior Ministry accused them of broadcasting illegally from a hotel suite. Al Jazeera's Cairo offices have been closed since July 3 when they were raided by security forces hours after the army ousted the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi from the presidency. Qatar was a strong financial backer of the Brotherhood's rule and its relationship with Cairo has deteriorated in recent months as it vehemently opposes the army's overthrow of Mr. Morsi and the crackdown on his movement that has followed. Egypt accuses Qatar and Al Jazeera of backing the Brotherhood, which it declared a terrorist organisation on Dec. 25 and thousands of whose members it has arrested. Egypt's State Information Service said in a statement on Tuesday that it is not targetting foreign journalists in Egypt and that the arrested journalists from Al Jazeera were not registered to work in Egypt. "Al Jazeera condemns and deplores the arbitrary detention of journalists and demands their unconditional, immediate release," a spokesman for the news channel said. He declined to comment on the case as Al Jazeera had not yet received any official notification, he said. The Canadian government confirmed it is aware that a Canadian citizen had been arrested in Egypt and said in a statement on Monday that consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information. Reuters with a report from Gloria Galloway in Ottawa