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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 03:40 PM Jun 2016

Egyptian Court Sentences 2 Al-Jazeera Employees to Death

Source: Associated Press

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

Morsi, the case's top defendant, and two of his aides were sentenced to 25 years in prison. Morsi and his secretary, Amin el-Sirafy, each received an additional 15-year sentence for a lesser crime. El-Sirafy's daughter, Karima, was also sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected leader, was ousted by the military in July 2013 and has already been sentenced to death in another case. That death sentence and another two — life and 20 years in prison — are under appeal. His Muslim Brotherhood was banned and declared a terrorist organization after his ouster. Khalid Radwan, a producer at a Brotherhood-linked TV channel, received a 15-year prison sentence.

All of Saturday's verdicts can be appealed. Of the case's 11 defendants, seven, including Morsi, are in custody.

Amnesty International called for the death sentences to be immediately thrown out and for the "ludicrous charges against the journalists to be dropped."

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egyptian-court-sentences-al-jazeera-employees-death-39955068



By HAMZA HENDAWI, ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO — Jun 18, 2016, 12:24 PM ET
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NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
1. I've been to Egypt a few times and was excited to go back
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:14 PM
Jun 2016

After Dr Hawass got the boot. Now I'm not sure I'll ever go back. Same thing with Turkey.

Sad times.

Little Tich

(6,171 posts)
6. I never liked Dr Hawass either - he acted as if he was there only was one Egyptian archaeologist
Sun Jun 19, 2016, 04:17 AM
Jun 2016

- himself...

floppyboo

(2,461 posts)
2. Another example of a fucked up foreign policy
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:14 PM
Jun 2016

Under Clinton, along with Honduras - the US refused to call both of these military coups so they could justify pumping in neo-liberal policies and weapons.

Yes, she did want to orchestra a slower regime change, but was over ruled and the country had its democratic election. The military in Egypt has for many moons run as a separate force, and a soccer match gone bad was good enough for Ms. Clinton to deride the Muslim Brotherhood. You may not agree with them but they were the people's choice.

Eritrea next - just in time for President Clinton. Can't wait. Oh boy.

Shame

floppyboo

(2,461 posts)
3. A little too late, and will it ever end? Bush legacy with journalism:
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 04:53 PM
Jun 2016
On April 8, 2003, during the US-led invasion of Iraq, Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayoub was killed when a US warplane bombed Al Jazeera's headquarters in Baghdad.

The invasion and subsequent nine-year occupation of Iraq claimed the lives of a record
number of journalists. It was undisputedly the deadliest war for journalists in recorded history.
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The US bombed Al Jazeera's office in Kabul during the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan, and attacked the media outlet multiple times during the 2003 Iraq invasion, including the killing of Ayoub, despite the fact that Al Jazeera supplied the Pentagon with their headquarter's coordinates in Baghdad in February 2003.

On the same day Ayoub was killed a US tank shelled the Palestine Hotel, home and office to more than 100 unembedded international journalists operating in Baghdad at the time. The shell smashed into the Reuters office, killing two cameramen, Reuters' Taras Protsyuk and Jose Couso of Spain's Telecinco. That day there was also an attack on an Abu Dhabi TV office by US forces.

http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/04/2013481202781452.html

forest444

(5,902 posts)
5. Thank you for this! That alone would warrant the Bushies' being dragged to the Hague.
Sat Jun 18, 2016, 05:40 PM
Jun 2016

I might add that a relative of mine was among the embedded journalists at the Palestine Hotel, and was just one floor above the attack that killed the Reuters cameramen.

The other extremely suspicious such death was that of Brazilian UN envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in the August 19, 2003, Canal Hotel bombing.

If all the Bush files could talk...

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