As a human right lawyer, the wife of actor George Clooney represents one of the three Al Jazeera journalists jailed and facing retrial for supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

Amal Clooney acts for Baher Mohammed who, with Mohammed Fahmy and Peter Greste have been jailed for a year.

They were sentenced to between seven and ten years imprisonment for, they insist, merely doing their jobs as journalists.

Clooney’s report on behalf of the International Bar Association says Egypt’s judicial system is not as independent as it should be.

It allows Egyptian officials to handpick judges, known to dispense particularly brutal verdicts, for political cases.

She wanted to release the report in Cairo but was warned against doing so on pain of arrest.

Clooney says the flaws in the judicial system will compromise the integrity of the journalists’ retrial.

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