Egypt needs to deport them, remove their visas or tell them to find another country or island to live on.
Why do through a trail, it will only upset everyone. Tell them to get out of the country and if they come back it is at their own risk. Look, you know China once told Nick Kristof not to ever enter the country where his in-laws live. It happens.
This is not that big of a deal. Countries do this all the time, the journalists are used to it. Tell them there is more news in Beirut. News gets that way. Everyone fighting for the next headline and it reads really lousy when one realizes it is the same story as the next one only with a twist. All those journalists trying to cover different sides of the mess get confused themselves.
This stuff is not worth the time of the Egyptian government. It just isn't. Put them out of the country. Something tells me these journalists are not bringing people together. That is the issue here. They are doing a really lousy job in Egypt and the government wants it to end. They need reassignment, that is all this is.
Ahram Online
Thursday 20 Feb 2014
The trial of 20 journalists (click here) working for Al Jazeera, including four foreigners, has been adjourned until 5 March.
Representatives from the Australian and Canadian embassies were in court to support their citizens.
There was a heavy presence of foreign media outlets in the courtroom.
The 16 Egyptians are charged with joining a terrorist organisation – a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, officially designated a terrorist group in December – harming national unity and social peace.
The foreigners – an Australian, two Britons and one Dutch – are accused of "airing false news" in order to "undermine the state's status and disrupt public security."...
Why do through a trail, it will only upset everyone. Tell them to get out of the country and if they come back it is at their own risk. Look, you know China once told Nick Kristof not to ever enter the country where his in-laws live. It happens.
This is not that big of a deal. Countries do this all the time, the journalists are used to it. Tell them there is more news in Beirut. News gets that way. Everyone fighting for the next headline and it reads really lousy when one realizes it is the same story as the next one only with a twist. All those journalists trying to cover different sides of the mess get confused themselves.
This stuff is not worth the time of the Egyptian government. It just isn't. Put them out of the country. Something tells me these journalists are not bringing people together. That is the issue here. They are doing a really lousy job in Egypt and the government wants it to end. They need reassignment, that is all this is.
Ahram OnlineThursday 20 Feb 2014
The trial of 20 journalists (click here) working for Al Jazeera, including four foreigners, has been adjourned until 5 March.
Representatives from the Australian and Canadian embassies were in court to support their citizens.
There was a heavy presence of foreign media outlets in the courtroom.
The 16 Egyptians are charged with joining a terrorist organisation – a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, officially designated a terrorist group in December – harming national unity and social peace.
The foreigners – an Australian, two Britons and one Dutch – are accused of "airing false news" in order to "undermine the state's status and disrupt public security."...
