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Al Jazeera staff held for one year in Egypt – Middle East – Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera staff held for one year in Egypt – Middle East – Al Jazeera English.
It has been one year since three Al Jazeera journalists were arrested in Egypt in a case that sparked international outrage.
Baher Mohamed, Mohamed Fahmy and Peter Greste were arrested in Cairo on December 29, 2013 under false charges of aiding the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news.
In June, Greste, an Australian, and Fahmy, an Egyptian-Canadian, received seven-year jail terms, while Mohamed, an Egyptian, was sentenced to 10 years.
Baher Mohamed’s wife, Jehan Rashed, told Al Jazeera that the day her husband was arrested had been the worst of her life.
“The sentiment of injustice is overwhelming,” she said.
“Baher was arrested on this day a year ago. It was the worst day Baher, our children and I have ever lived.
Mohamed Fahmy, Canadian Imprisoned In Egypt, Pleads For Harper’s Help
Mohamed Fahmy, Canadian Imprisoned In Egypt, Pleads For Harper’s Help.
Imprisoned Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to personally ask Egypt’s president to release him before an appeal court closes his chance at a retrial.
Fahmy, who made the comments in an exclusive interview with CBC’s the fifth estate, was arrested last December along with two other Al-Jazeera journalists. He was sentenced in June to seven years in prison on charges of undermining Egypt’s security and supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. His appeal is scheduled for Jan. 1.
The interview marks the first time the Canadian-Egyptian dual citizen has spoken about his conviction and his belief that the Canadian government can do more.
“We are at the finish line, we’re two weeks away from the appeal and that phone call I desperately need from the Canadian government I need now,” Fahmy said.
Fahmy said the government should intervene because he is a Canadian citizen with no criminal record. “I’ve paid my taxes, I have a proven track record of 15 years of journalism and I’ve acted with complete decency throughout the whole trial,” he said.
What Submarine in Sweden? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
What Submarine in Sweden? » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names.
Lund, Sweden.
You have heard that Sweden is hunting a ”submarine” and that it is ”presumed to be Russian”. Here is an example Financial Times of October 21 – which incidentally also announces that the Swedish Prime Minister vows to increase defence spending.
Not the slightest evidence
There are only three problems with this:
1) There is not the slightest evidence of there being anything military, neither that it is a submarine nor that, whatever the object might be, it is Russian.
2) Even with CNN, BBC and AlJazeera this is nothing but speculative low-grade yellow press journalism.
This is possible in the field of defence, security and peace because much less is required of journalists when they write about these matters than when they write about, say, domestic politics, economics, sports, books or food and wine. In these fields you are expected to have some knowledge and media consumers are able to check.
