Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to three years in prison by Egyptian court
Source: The Guardian
An Egyptian judge sentenced three journalists to three years in prison on Saturday in connection with their work for al-Jazeera English.
At the end of their retrial, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were taken into custody from a metal and glass cage inside the courtroom at Cairo’s Tora prison. Peter Greste was deported to his home country of Australia in early February and was convicted in absentia.
The case has been an illustration of the erosion of press freedom in Egypt in the two years since the military removed the country’s elected Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, from power.
Judge Hassan Farid said that in his court’s view the men were not journalists. He then read out the sentences, which triggered a chaotic reaction in the courtroom as reporters, foreign diplomats and distraught family members rushed to leave the building.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/29/egyptian-court-sentences-3-al-jazeera-english-journalists-to-3-years-in-prison
Fahmy, who was a joint Egyptian-Canadian citizen, but has renounced his Egyptian citizenship, is going to seek deportation to Canada (as a side note, his lawyer is Amal Clooney).
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