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Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy raises an Egyptian national flag while talking to the judge during his retrial at a court in Cairo, on February 12, 2015. (Reuters/Asmaa Waguih)

Egypt court orders release of Al-Jazeera English journalists

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 12, 2015 | Middle East

Cairo, AP—An Egyptian judge on Thursday ordered the release on bail of a pair of Al-Jazeera English journalists being retried on terror-related charges, bringing cheers from their families who have sought to get them out of detention for more than a year and are...

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Defense lawyer of Al-Jazeera English journalist Egyptian–Canadian Mohammed Fahmy, Nejad Al-Borai, speaks to the press outside the high court in downtown Cairo on January 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Egyptian court orders retrial of Al Jazeera journalists

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 1, 2015 | Media

Cairo, Reuters—Egypt’s highest court has ordered a retrial of three jailed journalists working for Al Jazeera television, citing procedural flaws in last year’s trial, defense lawyers said on Thursday. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian–Egyptian Mohamed...

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Al-Jazeera news channel’s Australian journalist Peter Greste (L) and his colleagues, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (C) and Egyptian Baher Mohamed , listen to the verdict inside the defendants cage during their trial for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood on June 23, 2014 at the police institute near Cairo’s Tora prison. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI

Egypt sentences three Al-Jazeera reporters to seven years

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2014 | Media

Cairo, AP—An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three journalists from Al-Jazeera English and sentenced them to seven years in prison each on terrorism-related charges in a case that has brought an outcry from rights groups. The sentences were handed down against...