Top Egypt court orders retrial of Al Jazeera journalists

They say they were just doing their jobs.

After appealing the charge of spreading false news and conspiring with Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood, three Al Jazeera journalists who have been jailed for more than a year are getting a retrial.

Egypt’s high court announced the order of a retrial at a Cairo hearing on Thursday, when the journalists’ families expected the journalists would be released.

While a decision was a disappointment to some,  the wife of jailed journalist Baher Mohammed, Jehan Rashed, said a retrial was a “small but positive step” for her husband’s freedom.

In June, a judge sentenced journalists Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy to seven years in prison while Baher Mohamed received a 10 years.