Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt to get retrial
Egypt will retry two Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned for allegedly aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood, a lawyer for one of the men said Sunday. The retrial is scheduled to begin Feb. 12.
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were arrested in December 2013 and sentenced to seven and 10 years in jail, respectively. A third reporter, Peter Greste was sentenced along with them, but Egypt unexpectedly released him last week and deported him to his native Australia.
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