{"id":3181,"date":"2014-06-25T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2014-06-25T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T05:01:44","slug":"egypt-foreign-ministry-rejects-foreign-condemnation-of-al-jazeera-verdicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-foreign-ministry-rejects-foreign-condemnation-of-al-jazeera-verdicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt foreign ministry rejects foreign condemnation of Al Jazeera verdicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry has expressed its objection to foreign criticism of Egypt&#8217;s judiciary and its rulings, following a verdict on Monday that sent three Al Jazeera journalists \u2013 an Australian, an Egyptian-Canadian and an Egyptian \u2013 to prison for &#8220;spreading false news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The foreign ministry strongly rejects any comment from a foreign body which expresses suspicion of the independence of the Egyptian judiciary and the fairness of its rulings,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Western countries flooded Egypt with criticism following the verdict. Egyptian envoys in Australia and the Netherlands were summoned. A Dutch journalist was sentenced in absentia along with 11 others.<\/p>\n<p>British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Egypt&#8217;s ambassador to the UK would be summoned over the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ministry rejects the use of expressions and formulations which violate acceptable diplomatic norms,&#8221; the statement said, adding that foreign intervention in internal Egyptian affairs is rejected by the ministry and Egyptians&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/104607\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Egypt-foreign-ministry-rejects-foreign-condemnatio.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry has expressed its objection to foreign criticism of Egypt&#8217;s judiciary and its rulings, following a verdict on Monday that sent three Al Jazeera journalists \u2013 an Australian, an Egyptian-Canadian and an Egyptian \u2013 to prison for &#8220;spreading false news.&#8221; &#8220;The foreign ministry strongly rejects any comment from a foreign body which expresses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,1653,1588,4697,415,1654,257,4694,254,1652],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeera-journalists","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-journalists","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspicion-of-the-independence-of-the-egyptian-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}