Egypt's apex court has accepted an appeal for the retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists who were convicted in June for supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood, lawyers to the journalists confirmed on Thursday.
The three journalists: Peter Greste, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed got convicted in June of supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood (a religious and political group banned and labeled a terrorist organization following the ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Morsy in 2013) and were eventually sentenced to seven years in prison.
A statement by Al Jazeera said "Baher, Peter and Mohammed have been unjustly in jail for over a year now," adding that "The Egyptian authorities have a simple choice -- free these men quickly, or continue to string this out, all the while continuing this injustice and harming the image of their own country in the eyes of the world. They should choose the former."
6 comments:
world leaders DO SOMETHING!!!
this has taken way too long
yea, too long!
Its surprising how dis authoritarian regime can act as it likes and the international community does nothing
where is press freedom
#smh
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