Muslim Botherhood Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/muslim-botherhood/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 01 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Muslim Botherhood Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/muslim-botherhood/ 32 32 Egypt deports jailed journalist https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/egypt-deports-jailed-journalist/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/02/egypt-deports-jailed-journalist/ Relatives of the Australian journalist Peter Greste have expressed their delight at his being freed and deported by Egyptian authorities. They’ve thanked all those who played a part in this and vowed to continue pressing for similar treatment for his two Egyptian colleagues from the Al Jazeera channel. Peter Greste is on his way home […]

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]]> Relatives of the Australian journalist Peter Greste have expressed their delight at his being freed and deported by Egyptian authorities.

They’ve thanked all those who played a part in this and vowed to continue pressing for similar treatment for his two Egyptian colleagues from the Al Jazeera channel.

Peter Greste is on his way home to Australia. His colleagues Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed are still imprisoned in Egypt.

They’ve been behind bars for 400 days.

Their conviction for supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood was overturned and a new trial ordered.

This gave Cairo authorities the window to deport Greste.

The journalists insist they were only doing their jobs as does the Qatar-based television chain that employs them.

Al Jazzera says the two other correspondents must also be released

 

 

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