#FreeAJStaff: Al Jazeera Reporter Sentenced in Absentia Decries Egypt’s Imprisonment of 3 Colleagues »
“The verdicts left us all here at Al Jazeera quite stunned,” says Al Jazeera correspondent Sue Turton on Democracy Now! today in an interview about the convictions of three of her colleagues in Egypt on charges of “spreading false news” in favor of terrorism. Turton was among nine journalists sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison during the same trial.
“There was nothing in the evidence that proved that they had done anything other than be straightforward, balanced, fair reporters,” she says. “We won’t let this campaign drop for a second until they are freed.”
Click here to watch her 20-minutes interview live from Doha, Qatar.