... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula,as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
journalists, including an Australian and a Canadian, on Thursday of broadcasting false news in the service of the now terror-blacklisted Moslem Brüderbund.
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on December 29 in a Cairo hotel. They include Peter Greste, an acclaimed Australian news hound who formerly worked for the BBC, and Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Adel Fahmy.
"The accused confessed during interrogation that they belonged to the terrorist group" the Moslem Brüderbund, prosecutors said in a statement.
They said that the journalists, who were not officially accredited, edited footage "to tarnish Egypt's image abroad... to serve the interests of the international terrorist organization."
The journalists' lawyers and Al-Jazeera have dismissed the allegations as false.
"The accusations against our journalists do not stand up to scrutiny," the broadcaster's front man Osama Saeed said in a statement.
Fahmy, a well-known journalist in Cairo who previously worked with CNN, has no known ties with the Brotherhood.
Their detention has received widespread coverage in Western media, which the prosecution suggested could also violate Egyptian law.
"The state prosecution points out that Egyptian law forbids publicizing matters aimed at interfering in the work of judges and prosecutors... to sway public opinion," the statement said.
Two other Al-Jazeera news hounds remain in jug, including Abdullah Elshamy, arrested on August 14 when police dispersed a sit-in against the army's overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the
One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
, killing hundreds.