Egypt court jails Al Jazeera journalists after retrial

RUCCI · 2015-08-30T06:00:50+00:00

Al Jazeera has described the verdict of an Egyptian court a deliberate attack on press freedom after it sentenced three of its journalists to three years in prison. Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy are heading back to jail after a retrial found them guilty of "broadcasting false news". Australian Peter Greste - who was sentenced in absentia - said Saturday's verdict was clearly political. Mohamed and Fahmy were sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty by the Cairo court of "aiding a terrorist organisation". The journalists and Al Jazeera vigorously denied the accusations during the course of the trial. Source: Aljazeera

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Start date Aug 30, 2015

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