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#Al_Jazeera journalists denied bail at #Egypt court
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An Egypt court Monday turned down a plea for bail by jailed Al Jazeera journalists, who denied links with the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood in a trial that has sparked international condemnation. The journalists, who have spent nearly 100 days in jail since their arrest, are charged with spreading false news and supporting the Islamist movement of deposed president Mohammed Mursi. “Please, get us out of jail, we are tired. We’ve been suffering in prison,” Mohammed Fadel Fahmy, the Egypt bureau chief of Al Jazeera English, told the judges. read more

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#Egypt jails 33 #mursi supporters for six years each
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An Egypt court on Monday sentenced 33 supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi to six-year jail terms each for committing acts of violence during an “unauthorized” protest, judicial sources said. The accused, deemed by the court to be members of Mursi’s #Muslim_Brotherhood, were found guilty of violent acts during clashes between Islamist demonstrators and opponents of Mursi in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria last December, the sources told AFP. read more

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