Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Ex-BBC man is among journalists facing Egyptian court on terror charges

Paraded: Defendants in the cages of a Cairo courtroom. Defendants include (left to right) Student Suhaib Saeed, and Al-Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Modhamed

Peter Greste, who worked for the BBC in Afghanistan, Latin America and Africa, is among three journalists and 17 others charged with providing a platform to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group of the democratically-elected former president Mohamed Morsi.
The 45-year-old Australian, who works for Arab TV channel Al Jazeera, describes the charges as ‘preposterous’ and an international campaign has been launched to secure his release.

Source-Dailym

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