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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11367
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) egypt

ALDE and PES call for Al Jazeera journalists to be freed

Brussels, 27/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 24 July, the presidents of the ALDE and PES parties, Sir Graham Watson of the United Kingdom and the Bulgarian Sergei Stanishev respectively, called for the Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, currently being held in Egypt, to be freed.

With their verdict to be handed down on Thursday 30 July, the two journalists face ten years in prison on charges of terrorism and of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood. Their Australian...