An Egyptian court said it ordered a retrial of Al-Jazeera journalists due to a lack of evidence showing their alleged links to the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported Monday. The Court of Cassation had on January 1 ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists, overturning a lower court's verdict which found them guilty of aiding the Islamist movement. The lower court had sentenced Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed to up to 10 years in jail for spreading "false news" during their coverage of protests after the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
02-14-2015, 09:34 AM
Egypt says lack of evidence led to Jazeera retrial
An Egyptian court said it ordered a retrial of Al-Jazeera journalists due to a lack of evidence showing their alleged links to the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported Monday. The Court of Cassation had on January 1 ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists, overturning a lower court's verdict which found them guilty of aiding the Islamist movement. The lower court had sentenced Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed to up to 10 years in jail for spreading "false news" during their coverage of protests after the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
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