(23 Jun 2014) The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday condemned the convictions and seven year sentences handed down to three Al-Jazeera journalists by an Egyptian court.
RSF's Executive Director Christophe Deloire described the sentences handed to Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed as "totally iniquitous" and urged the Egyptian authorities to "correct what they did."
Deloire also said the sentences "are a way to repress all dissident voices."
The three men, who have been detained since December, contend they are being prosecuted simply for doing their jobs as journalists, covering Islamist protests against the removal of President Mohammed Morsi last year.
Three other foreign journalists, two Britons and a Dutch citizen, were sentenced to 10 years in absentia.
Media groups have called the trial political, part of a fight between the government and the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera network, which authorities accuse of bias toward the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi.
The network denies any bias.
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