The regime in Egypt journalists treated like criminals. A court in Cairo has sentenced three reporters of the news channel Al Jazeera to seven years in prison.

Egypt’s regime is cracking down on unwelcome journalists. A court in Cairo has sentenced three reporters of the news channel Al Jazeera to seven years in prison. The judges were guilty on Monday who have now supported banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The Shawshank Redemption is the Australian Peter Greste, his Egyptian-Canadian colleague Mohammed Fadel Fahmi and the Egyptian Mohammed Baher. They are spreading false news and have harmed the reputation of Egypt. Seven other journalists, against which was negotiated in the trial in absentia, were sentenced to ten years in prison.
Greste and his colleagues were arrested last December in a hotel in Cairo. Egypt’s judiciary called them therefore as “Mariott” cell. The journalists had reported on the protests against the military coup in Cairo. In July 2013, the Army had the freely elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi overthrown.

The process resembled a farce: The evidence submitted by the prosecution, were TV reports that arose as none of the defendants was in Egypt, a report on an animal hospital in Cairo, a BBC documentary on Somalia and a music video the Belgian-Australian singer Gotye.

Al Jazeera can not be more reporting from Egypt for months. The station is based in Qatar, whose dynasty had financed and supported the Muslim Brotherhood.

Process In Cairo:Defendants react in horror

The ruling comes just a day after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Cairo. He had promised that he would push for talks with President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi for journalists. Even Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott had called for the release of his compatriot Peter Greste – in vain.

The defendants were taken aback by the condemnation: “You will pay for it,” cried Fahmi, who was like all the defendants locked in a cage in the courtroom. His brother Adel said: “The judge has just destroyed a family The whole system is corrupt..” Al Jazeera said, contrary to the judgment “logic, reason and any semblance of justice.”

Several Western diplomats were present at the sentencing. The British Ambassador James Watt expressed his “very disappointed” by the decision of the judge. “Freedom of the press is essential for democracy.” His Canadian colleague said: “We do not understand this sentence.”

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she has “deeply shocked and disgusted” by the Cairo judgment. “Peter Greste was just at the wrong time, wrong place.”

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