There’s growing international condemnation of the sentences of seven years in prison.

In addition to the three men who left the dock in Cairo for jail, the court imposed 10-year sentences in absentia on eleven journalists including a Dutchman and two Britons.

UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay calls the jailings obscene.

The governments of Australia, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and the United States along with a number of human rights watchdog groups have expressed their condemnation of the sentences.

Egypt’s under international pressure to take pardon the journalists who are expected to appeal the sentences.

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