CAIRO (AP) – Here are the latest developments in Egypt’s retrial of three Al-Jazeera English journalists:
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Egypt’s state news agency is reporting that a verdict is expected soon in the case of three Al-Jazeera English journalists.
MENA reported the verdict was to be issued Saturday in the long-running trial criticized worldwide by press freedom advocates and human rights activists.
The three Al-Jazeera journalists – Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed – were detained in December 2013 while working for the Doha-based network.
The three first were sentenced to prison before Egypt’s highest court ordered a retrial on charges of them allegedly being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which authorities have declared a terrorist organization, and airing falsified footage intended to damage national security.
Egypt deported Greste in February. Fahmy and Mohammed were later released on bail.