Did they ask the same of everyone there with camera equiped cell phones, IPODS or secret hidden spy camera’s?
I had to turn over my camera before I entering the room even though it was secured in my camera bag.
I was advised that I would be arrested if I did not comply.
EDITOR: You weren’t wearing an expensive outfit. After reflection, the head of security concluded that I was a member of the “untortuable class”, per Graham Greene’s ‘Our Man In Havana.’