Mohamed Fahmy has been toeing the line between being a journalist and being a story for over a year now. As the former Al Jazeera bureau chief in Cairo, Fahmy, 41, was arrested in Egypt in 2013 with two colleagues and convicted of terror-related charges. The case, the court trials, the journalist and his family have… Continue reading EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: RRJ speaks to Mohamed Fahmy
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Can journalists help their wrongly imprisoned colleagues?
Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has now been in an Egyptian jail for 319 days. He was arrested along with fellow Al Jazeera reporters Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste in December 2013, under trumped up charges of spreading false news and aiding the Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed organization. All three are now sitting in prison just for… Continue reading Can journalists help their wrongly imprisoned colleagues?