Peter greste, at least, is out of the gaol after being deported back to australia in february. Mohamed fadel fahmy and Mohammed Badr are back in toura prison where they have spent more than 400 days. The story unfolded in the context of a geopolitical struggle. The case is about more than al jazeera. Many consider is to be a trial with a target audience including other journalists and the International News reader and bloggers, critics and activists. Telling the egypt story, too many of whom are behind bars, accused of being enemies of the state, even terrorists, for failing to toe the abdul fatah alsisi government line. Nor is the Story Limited to egypt. Turkey in the past week gaoled two journalists and an iraqi translator. And terror related charges dropped against the journalists could have come out of the Egyptian Government playbook. Before getting to the starting point cairo, well go to sydney away. Once you are sentenced in the cage, you are taken out. Put into handcuffs, droge
Witness this today, stephanie. Libby casey anticipating events there, our coverage of pope francis first visit to america continues and the pontiff reaction to the Church Sex Abuse scandal and some praise him for it and some say its not enough. We do have i believe more live pictures coming out of washington right now, do we have images of the parade route and in just moments the pope will be getting back into the pope mobile at which point it will be a relatively short parade around the lifts. This is a live look at the residence where the pope is staying and i believe this is Patrick Horn Beck help me out, is in the cathedral. Inside space he will pray before going back outside to celebrate mass. Okay, and from here patrick let us just pause for a moment and talk about the popularity of this pope among ordinary americans because there are 70 million catholics in the country. Absolutely. His message resinating to people beyond that . Absolutely, this pope has managed to attract people
Freedom, two jailed al jazeera journalists have finally been pardoned and released. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy spent over a year in and egyptian jail. We will speak with the third al jazeera journalist, peter greste , who was imprisoned with them for more than 400 days and reported to australia. He has yet to receive a pardon. The fact is, we did nothing wrong. There was no evidence of wrongdoing. Ande guys are innocent men innocent men are in prison. That is what it is about. One day in prison would be unjust. Amy peter greste has traveled to new york to lobby for a pardon from egyptian president elsisi whos here for the general assembly. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis has left the United States after a historic sixday visit. During his trip, pope francis addressed congress and the United Nations general assembly, fed Homeless People in washington, d. C. And met with , immigrant
Ld hear almost the sound it was amazing. I kept jumping and jumping. Amy in a victory for press freedom, two jailed al jazeera journalists have finally been pardoned and released. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy spent over a year in and egyptian jail. We will speak with the third al jazeera journalist, peter greste , who was imprisoned with them for more than 400 days and reported to australia. He has yet to receive a pardon. The fact is, we did nothing wrong. There was no evidence of wrongdoing. Ande guys are innocent men innocent men are in prison. That is what it is about. One day in prison would be unjust. Amy peter greste has traveled to new york to lobby for a pardon from egyptian president elsisi whos here for the general assembly. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis has left the United States after a historic sixday visit. During his trip, pope francis addressed congress and the Uni
Ld hear almost the sound it was amazing. I kept jumping and jumping. Amy in a victory for press freedom, two jailed al jazeera journalists have finally been pardoned and released. Baher mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy spent over a year in and egyptian jail. We will speak with the third al jazeera journalist, peter greste , who was imprisoned with them for more than 400 days and reported to australia. He has yet to receive a pardon. The fact is, we did nothing wrong. There was no evidence of wrongdoing. Ande guys are innocent men innocent men are in prison. That is what it is about. One day in prison would be unjust. Amy peter greste has traveled to new york to lobby for a pardon from egyptian president elsisi whos here for the general assembly. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Pope francis has left the United States after a historic sixday visit. During his trip, pope francis addressed congress and the Uni