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UN urges Egypt to release foreign journalists, including Peter Greste UN urges Egypt to release foreign journalists, including Peter Greste
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Egyptian prosecutors have since referred to trial 20 al-Jazeera journalists, including Greste, for airing false news.Egyptian prosecutors have since referred to trial 20 al-Jazeera journalists, including Greste, for airing false news.
In In a statement delivered in Geneva on Friday night, Colville said the prosecutors' announcement had increased fears among the general media.
a statement delivered in Geneva on Friday night, Colville said the The Australian foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has spoken with her Egyptian counterpart, Nabil Fahmy, to express her concerns about the charges but warns there is only so much the Australian government can do.
prosecutors' announcement had increased fears among the general media.
The Australian
foreign minister, Julie Bishop, has spoken with her Egyptian counterpart, Nabil Fahmy, to express her concerns about the charges but warns there
is only so much the Australian government can do.
Bishop said Fahmy had offered some assurances about Greste's situation.Bishop said Fahmy had offered some assurances about Greste's situation.
"We "We will continue to press our position that he should be given conditional release while we consider what more we can do to seek his release overall."
will continue to press our position that he should be given conditional That information was passed on to Greste's Brisbane-based parents, who have described their son's detention as the most harrowing incident of their lives.
release while we consider what more we can do to seek his release
overall."
That
information was passed on to Greste's Brisbane-based parents, who have
described their son's detention as the most harrowing incident of their
lives.
"I've been caught in the middle of a political struggle that is not my own," the reporter wrote."I've been caught in the middle of a political struggle that is not my own," the reporter wrote.
Greste, Greste, usually East Africa correspondent for the global network, was due to work in Egypt for only a short time and was relieving a colleague.
usually East Africa correspondent for the global network, was due to
work in Egypt for only a short time and was relieving a colleague.