MOSCOW, July 7 (RAPSI) - Egyptian security forces raided the Cairo office of the Qatari-owned media company Al Jazeera on Sunday, Reuters reports, citing a spokesman for the channel in Doha.

He said that the channel's Cairo bureau chief Abdel-Fattah Fayed was taken in for questioning on Sunday, but was later released.

According to a journalist at the station, security forces raided the Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr channel's Cairo offices on Wednesday and detained at least five staff members. The station was prevented from broadcasting from a pro-Morsi rally, he said.

Al Jazeera's management has been accused of violating Egyptian laws by broadcasting without a license.

The offensive against Al Jazeera's Cairo office was undertaken after the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi.

Al Jazeera's Egyptian arm, which began broadcasting after President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in the 2011 uprising, has been accused of showing support for Egyptian Islamists, in particular Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.

Al Jazeera gave Muslim Brotherhood air time when they were denied access to the government television channels.