Members of the media surround Canadian Al Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, left, his lawyer Amal Clooney, center, and the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, Troy Lulashnyk, second right, before his verdict in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo on August 29. Amr Nabil / AP
Members of the media surround Canadian Al Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, left, his lawyer Amal Clooney, center, and the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, Troy Lulashnyk, second right, before his verdict in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo on August 29. Amr Nabil / AP
Members of the media surround Canadian Al Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, left, his lawyer Amal Clooney, center, and the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, Troy Lulashnyk, second right, before his verdict in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo on August 29. Amr Nabil / AP
Members of the media surround Canadian Al Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, left, his lawyer Amal Clooney, center, and the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, Troy Lulashnyk, second right, before h

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Egypt sentences Al Jazeera journalists to 3 years in prison

The verdict was issued in a retrial of a case against Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamd and Peter Greste.

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CAIRO // An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera English TV journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has triggered an international outcry.

The verdict in a retrial was issued against Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalised Canadian who has given up his Egyptian citizenship, Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian, and Australian Peter Greste, who was deported in February.

* Reuters

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