{"id":4388,"date":"2014-07-23T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2014-07-23T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:15:10","slug":"jailed-al-jazeera-journalists-guided-by-devil-says-egyptian-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/jailed-al-jazeera-journalists-guided-by-devil-says-egyptian-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Jailed al-Jazeera journalists guided by \u2018devil\u2019, says Egyptian court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian court that jailed three al-Jazeera journalists for alleged ties with Islamists said on Tuesday that &#8220;the devil guided&#8221; the group to spread false news defaming the country.<\/p>\n<p>Australian journalist Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed were convicted in June of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news that portrayed Egypt as being in a state of &#8220;civil war&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Greste and Fahmy received seven-year terms, while Mohamed was jailed for 10 years, in a case that sparked international outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven defendants tried in absentia, including one Dutch and two British journalists, were given 10-year sentences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The defendants took advantage of the noble profession of journalism \u2026 and turned it from a profession aimed at looking for the truth to a profession aimed at falsifying the truth,&#8221; the court said in a statement explaining its verdict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The devil guided them to use journalism and direct it toward activities against this nation,&#8221; it said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/23\/jailed-al-jazeera-journalists-guided-by-devil-egyptian-court\" 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>An Egyptian court that jailed three al-Jazeera journalists for alleged ties with Islamists said on Tuesday that &#8220;the devil guided&#8221; the group to spread false news defaming the country. Australian journalist Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed were convicted in June of aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false [&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":[258,256,1588,3111,1551,4697,415,3113,3112,565,3115,3114,345,257,4694,1549,254],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-jazeera-journalists","tag-australian-journalist-peter-greste","tag-baher-mohamed","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian-producer-baher-mohamed","tag-egyptian-canadian-mohamed-fadel-fahmy","tag-islamists","tag-journalism","tag-mohamed-fadel-fahmy","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-peter-greste","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","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=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/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=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}