{"id":3764,"date":"2014-07-08T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2014-07-08T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T02:53:20","slug":"egypts-sisi-wishes-al-jazeera-journalists-had-been-deported-not-tried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-sisi-wishes-al-jazeera-journalists-had-been-deported-not-tried\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s Sisi wishes Al Jazeera journalists had been deported, not tried"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAIRO, Reuters – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he wished the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, convicted of aiding “a terrorist group”, had been deported and not put on trial, a newspaper reported on Monday.<\/p>\n

Sisi’s comments sparked hope for the family of Australian reporter Peter Greste who, along with colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, was jailed last month for 10 years.<\/p>\n

Sisi was quoted by Egypt’s Al-Masry Al-Youm private newspaper as saying the verdict “had very negative effects”.<\/p>\n

“I wished they were deported right after they were arrested instead of getting put on trial,” Sisi added during a meeting with local journalists on Sunday…<\/p>\n

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CAIRO, Reuters – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he wished the imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, convicted of aiding “a terrorist group”, had been deported and not put on trial, a newspaper reported on Monday. Sisi’s comments sparked hope for the family of Australian reporter Peter Greste who, along with colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher […]<\/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":[489,258,256,1588,1732,1551,341,4697,415,488,2333,1550,257,4694,1549,340,254,2334],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-abdel-fattah-al-sisi","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-jazeera-journalists","tag-al-sisi","tag-baher-mohamed","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian-president-abdel-fattah-al-sisi","tag-imprisoned-al-jazeera-journalists","tag-mohamed-fahmy","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-peter-greste","tag-sisi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-very-negative-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","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=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/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=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}