WASHINGTON POST: …The employees for the Qatar-based Al Jazeera English network, the sister channel of Al Jazeera Arabic, were convicted by a Cairo criminal court earlier this year. A judge sentenced them to between seven to 10 years for collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood to threaten the country’s national security….
Rights groups denounced the trial as seriously flawed and politically motivated. Egypt’s government, brought to power by a military coup against the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013, had accused Qatar of backing the Muslim Brotherhood group that engineered Morsi’s presidency.
Egyptian officials charged that Al Jazeera worked as a mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt, doctoring reports to portray the country as mired in civil war… (more)
