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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 ...
Monday marked one year since the arrests of three Al Jazeera journalists in Cairo. Baher Mohammed, Mohammed Fahmy and Peter Greste were arrested on Dec. 29, 2013 while reporting on civil strife in Egypt. The three were charged with supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood and, in June, were sentenced to ...
An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld the convictions but reduced the sentences of eight men who appeared in a same-sex wedding video. Last month, the men were convicted of "inciting debauchery" and sentenced to three-year prison terms after a video surfaced online of them at what appeared ...
... associate professor of Middle Eastern politics at the University of Oklahoma. He joins us now from Norman, Oklahoma. Professor, how important is this ruling for Egypt? SAMER SHEHATA, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: It has very little political significance for Egypt's future political development. It's unlikely that this is going ...
A year ago, Egyptian security forces bulldozed the main protest camp in Cairo, after the demonstrators had been rallying for weeks against the removal of President Mohammed Morsi. The Egyptian government this week disputed a Human Rights Watch report that likened the security forces' actions to crimes against humanity. Prior ...
... there be a serious engagement, discussion, negotiation, regarding the underlying issues and addressing all the concerns that have brought us to where we are today." Egypt has proposed a cease-fire plan that is backed by the U.S. and Israel but been rejected by Hamas. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh ...
... made finding a solution much more difficult. NATAN SACHS: Much harder. In the past, you had Egypt to negotiate between the sides. And today the Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, have very bad relations. And even -- even Egypt today came out with a ...
... WARNER: But now you have got a government in Egypt that doesn't really want to open these crossings. You have got a government in Egypt that is hostile to Hamas. What are the prospects that in fact Egypt would even want to do that? MARK PERRY: Well, you're ...
... the military aid to Egypt. There is some discussion that perhaps this relationship has become imbalanced. The United States has invested very heavily in the Egyptian military, tens of billions of dollars of assistance, and much less so, at least in recent years, in the Egyptian economy, the Egyptian people ...
... And, you know, it's deeply disturbing to see in the midst of Egypt's transition. JEFFREY BROWN: Just a day earlier, Secretary Kerry visited Egypt, with word the U.S. is releasing $575 million in assistance that had been on hold, and that Egypt will be getting Apache helicopter ...
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