This week an Egyptian court handed down three year sentences for Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste, sparking international condemnation.
Including in a growing list of opposers: British Abassador to Egypt John Casson, representing international rights lawyer Amal Clooney and secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.
On Monday, the UN official gave the following statement. Via Twitter.
Elsewhere on Twitter, international users are tweeting about the sentencing under the hashtag #FreeAJStaff. And while this sort of Internet wrangling is noble in a sense, it's worth noting that Al Jazeera could havee also prepared for this with much more feasible — monetary means, making us wonder — who's in the journalists' corner now?
Have a look some of them below.
Thinking of Baher's family and especially his kids, so attached to their father #FreeAJStaff pic.twitter.com/mWpEKaZlvh
— Sherine Tadros (@SherineT) August 29, 2015#AmalClooney: #Egypt court's ruling sends 'dangerous message' #FreeAJStaff http://t.co/8Brokcf1Iy
— Omar Sabry (@sabryomar) August 30, 2015The world is visibly spiralling out of control and beyond sanity at the moment. Egypt is just one more autocracy in the making. #FreeAJStaff
— Roberto Cavazos (@yosoyrobcavazos) August 30, 2015Yep, Egypt is on it's way to the straight and narrow path to democracy. #FreeAJstaff
— Lamees (@Elyasiin) August 30, 2015An all too familiar underwhelming response to inconvenient injustice from our government. Shame. Also, #FreeAJStaff. https://t.co/8XsCGFiQS6
— Matthew Elliot (@matttbastard) August 30, 2015So his 'interference' is unacceptable is it? Guess what else is unacceptable? #FreeAJStaff https://t.co/79aqx3g53n
— Anthony Mills (@AAMills) August 30, 2015#Sisi will be most pleased ... most pleased #FreeAJStaff https://t.co/IeoozDhN3c
— Anthony Mills (@AAMills) August 30, 2015
