Rebekah Brooks has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and corrupting police officers by News International staff, two days before she is due to be questioned by the Parliamentary culture media and sport committee.

新闻国际(News International)前CEO丽贝卡•布鲁克斯(Rebekah Brooks)已被警方逮捕，她将于两天后出席英国议会文化、媒体和体育委员会(Culture, Media and Sport Committee)的聆讯。警方正对新闻国际员工电话窃听和贿赂警员的指控展开调查。

She was being questioned at a London police station on Sunday after surrendering into custody at about noon.

她在周日中午时分被捕后，便在伦敦一所警局接受讯问。

Mrs Brooks, 43, resigned as chief executive of News International on Friday after pressure to explain her role in the phone hacking scandal grew intense.

现年43岁的布鲁克斯在上周五辞去了新闻国际CEO的职务，此前要求解释她在电话窃听丑闻中所扮演角色的压力越来越大。

She has said consistently that she knows nothing about the interception of voicemail by people working for the News of the World.

她一直表示对《世界新闻报》(News of the World)聘请的人员侵入语音信箱的做法毫不知情。

However, in 2003, she told a select committee that “we have paid police for information in the past”, though she later clarified her remarks to say that she had no knowledge of specific corrupt payments.

然而在2003年，她曾告诉一个议会特别委员会“我们过去曾经向警方付费获取信息”，尽管她后来对自己的话作出澄清，称对具体的贿赂款项并不知情。

John Whittingdale, the chairman of the culture media and sport committee, which is due to question Mrs Brooks on Tuesday afternoon, said that he was taking legal advice as to whether she would be able to turn up now that she had been arrested.

文化、媒体和体育委员会主席约翰•威廷戴尔(John Whittingdale)称，对于布鲁克斯被捕后还能否出席议会聆讯，他将征求法律建议。该委员会定于周二下午质询布鲁克斯。

“It does change the picture. We’ll see,” Mr Whittingdale said.

威廷戴尔说：“这的确会改变大局面。我们会给予关注。”

He had previously said that because of her resignation from her job as chief executive of News International, she was likely to be questioned separately from her former employers and close friends, Rupert Murdoch, chief executive and chairman of News Corp and his son James.

他此前曾表示，由于布鲁克斯已经辞去新闻国际CEO职务，她可能会与前雇主和好友、新闻集团(News Corp)董事长和CEO鲁珀特•默多克(Rupert Murdoch)及其子詹姆斯•默多克(James Murdoch)分别接受质询。

Mrs Brooks’ arrest adds to a deepening crisis that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, the Metropolitan Police and David Cameron, the prime minister.

布鲁克斯被捕加剧了默多克的新闻集团、伦敦警察厅乃至英国首相戴维•卡梅伦(David Cameron)面临的日益严重的危机。