Egypt - Germany urged to free Al-Jazeera journalist held on Egyptian warrant

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders urges the German authorities to free well-known Al-Jazeera presenter Ahmed Mansour and wonders if they were knowingly acting as the accomplices of Egypt's authoritarian regime when arresting him at Berlin's Tegel airport on 20 June on an Egyptian arrest warrant. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's government issued the international arrest warrant after a Cairo court sentenced Mansour in absentia on 11 October 2014 to 15 years in prison for the alleged torture of a lawyer in (...)

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