Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt

Witness History

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History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 2014 three journalists were sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt.

Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed became known as the Al Jazeera Three.

The jail terms handed out to them led to an international outcry as protesters called for press freedom.

Peter Greste tells his compelling story to Gill Kearsley.

(Photo: Peter Greste inside the defendants’ cage. Credit: Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images)

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0:39.6	Hello. Hello and welcome to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Jill
0:49.6	Kursley. Our trade across the world has three Obviously.
0:53.0	Our trade, across the world as three Al Jazeera journalists
0:56.0	assent us seven years in jail.
0:58.0	I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
1:00.0	I would never, ever want to go through anything like that again, but I don't regret it.
1:05.0	That's Professor Peter Grester, who was arrested in Egypt.
1:10.0	Peter is a journalist and academic who in 2013 was working for the television news network
1:16.3	Al Jazeera English. He was an East Africa expert but was sent to Egypt to fill in over Christmas and New Year.
1:24.0	The main story for us was the ongoing dispute between the Muslim Brotherhood
1:30.0	supporters and the supporters of the interim government.
1:32.0	I knew that it was controversial. I knew that supporters and the supporters of the interim government.
1:32.8	I knew that it was controversial, I knew that there was a lot of pressure on foreign
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