The conviction of three Al Jazeera journalists by a court in Egypt has proved how wrong we we're when the army overthrew the government. Three journalists Peter Greste,Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were convicted without the prosecution producing a shred of evidence. Politically motivated as the case was, it send Egypt back to turmoil pointlessly.It is scandalous and dangerous that the champion od democracy in the world, the US has conspired in this injustice and threat against the media all over the world.
Under the pretext of purging Islamic fundamentalism, the US conspired with Egyptian Army to see to it that the democratically elected Mohamed Morsi was brought down. Many still wonder at the way the US has been pulling strings behind the curtains.
A day before a seven year sentence was handed down to these journalists, the US released over a half billion dollars aimed at helping the army. Such move made things worse as far as president Obama is concerned vis a vis democracy. Obama admin seems to be at home with what is now known as Democrlasisi in Egypt whereby a former general who overthrew Morsi is now a democratically elected president! Although the US with its cronies might assure themselves that they have fixed the problem in Egypt chances are that much is to come just soon. How do you convict journalists, politicians and activists just because they tell a story you don't want to hear and assume that things are normal?
Hypocrisy and double standard as displayed by the states in Egypt won't help any part in the conflict. Essentially what is going on is nothing but democrlasisi which in turn will ruin Egypt a great deal more.
We condemn this purge against democracy and freedoms of expression in Egypt in the strongest possible terms. Journalism is not a crime. Obama and al Sisi are behind our plight and tortures.
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