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Jailed Aljazeera scribes appeal against verdicts

Published: 22 Aug 2014 - 01:18 am | Last Updated: 21 Jan 2022 - 03:43 pm


CAIRO: Three Aljazeera journalists jailed by Egypt for alleged ties with Islamists filed appeals yesterday against their convictions. Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed were convicted in June of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news that portrayed Egypt as being in a state of “civil war”. 

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