About 30 people showed up to the #FreeAJStaff protest outside the Egyptian embassy in London yesterday on the one year anniversary of the arrest and incarceration in Cairo of Al-Jazeera English journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy, and Baher Mohamed. International media figures, National Union of Journalist members, and human rights workers were there calling for…
As Al-Jazeera staff prepare to mark a year since the arrest and detention of their colleagues Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed on 29 December, media freedoms in Egypt remain in peril. The AJ three, whose jailing sparked condemnation from colleagues across the international media, are only the best known example of journalists who…
Trade unionists and activists in South Korea protested at the Egyptian embassy in Seoul on 26 June, calling for the release of #noprotestlaw detainees, including Mahienour el-Masry, Alaa Abdel Fattah, Yara Sallam and Sana Seif. They also condemned the jail terms handed down to Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy and…
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