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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11378
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EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) egypt

EU criticises sentencing of Al Jazeera journalists

Brussels, 31/08/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Saturday 29 August, the European Union criticised an Egyptian court's sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists -Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, and Australian Peter Greste - to three years' imprisonment. The EU called again for their immediate release and said it looked forward to the appeals procedure. The journalists were found guilty of “spreading false information” to support the Muslim Brotherhood, and of having...

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