Three Al Jazeera journalists have been sentenced to seven years in jail after an Egyptian judge found\u00a0them guilty on charges of\u00a0aiding\u00a0a \u201cterrorist organisation\u201d by publishing lies.<\/p>\n
The three include Australian Peter Greste, Al Jazeera\u2019s Kenya-based correspondent, and Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed Fahmy, bureau chief of Al Jazeera English.<\/p>\n
The verdict \u2014 delivered to a packed courtroom in Cairo \u2014 has left Greste\u2019s Brisbane-based family devastated.<\/p>\n
A third defendant, Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, received an additional three-year jail sentence on a separate charge involving gun possession.<\/p>\n
Another 11 defendants were sentenced in absentia to 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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