Egypt - Outrage as Al-Jazeera retrial ends with three-year jail terms

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the three-year jail sentences that a Cairo court, after many postponements, finally passed today on Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Geste, who were convicted of disseminating false information and working without a licence. “We firmly condemn the disgraceful ‘political' verdict issued at the end of the retrial of these Al-Jazeera journalists,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “For (...)

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