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| Retrial in Egypt al-Jazeera Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed case | Retrial in Egypt al-Jazeera Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed case |
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| Egypt's top court has ordered a retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists jailed for spreading false news. | Egypt's top court has ordered a retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists jailed for spreading false news. |
| The decision was made after the hearing in Cairo of an appeal by the three, Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, against their conviction. | The decision was made after the hearing in Cairo of an appeal by the three, Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, against their conviction. |
| Prosecutors acknowledged major problems with the verdict, defence lawyers said. A new trial will occur within a month but the trio must stay in custody. | |
| The journalists deny collaborating with the banned Muslim Brotherhood. | The journalists deny collaborating with the banned Muslim Brotherhood. |
| They say they were simply reporting the news. | |
| They were accused of aiding the banned organisation after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the military in 2013. | |
| Two of them are foreign nationals - Peter Greste, a former BBC correspondent, is Australian, and his producer colleague Mohammed Fahmy holds Egyptian and Canadian citizenship. | |
| The three journalists have now spent a year in jail since they were first arrested in December 2013. | |
| Judges have ruled that they should remain in custody until the new trial. | |
| Thursday's court session began at 09:00 local time (07:00 GMT) and lasted just 30 minutes. | |
| Journalists were not allowed into the court to cover proceedings, and none of the defendants were present. | |
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| The BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo says that the case has been hugely damaging for Egypt and there are strong indications that the authorities want to bring it to a close. | |
| A recent thaw in relations between Cairo and Qatar - which owns the TV channel - has heightened expectations, our correspondent says, and there is a growing belief here that the journalists will eventually be freed even if the time frame is uncertain. | |
| President Sisi has said in the past he wished the journalists had been deported rather than being put on trial. |