Oppressive Egypt sentences TV presenter Doaa Salah to 3 years in jail after saying unmarried women who want kids, can have them.

The oppressive Egypt has sentences the female TV presenter Doaa Salah to 3 years behind bars for saying that unmarried women who want kids, can have them.

The presenter on Al-Nahar TV of the Maa Dody ("With Dody") show was sentenced to 3 years in jail by the Egyptian courts for simply speaking on her TV show, in an episode entitled "Single Mothers" broadcast on 28 July this year about unmarried women who want kids but who don't want to be married.

Doaa Salah said that women can be single mothers if they make a financial agreement with a baby's father and that it's something that happens in other countries.

Doaa Salah was charged and convicted for "outraging public decency" in the oppressive North African country. The Cairo court also ordered her to pay a fine of 10 000 Egyptian pounds.

Doaa Salah asked viewers if they had considered having sex without being married. According to the Egyptian courts Doaa Salah's sex talk on television "threatened the fabric of Egyptian life".

Doaa Salah's show was taken off air and she was also accused of performing "bizarre and controversial acts" on television, including wearing a fake pregnant belly and appearing under bubble bath in a bathtub.

"I did not intend to incite people to commit immoral actions," said Doaa Salah.

"Why did they punish me? I just presented my view point."

BREAKING. Egypt sentences Al Jazeera journalists to 3 years in prison for operating without a press licence and not being 'registered' journalists.

In a retrial, an Egyptian judge this morning in Cairo sentenced 3 journalists who worked for Al Jazeera (DStv 406 / StarSat 257) to 3 years in court because they were operating without a press licence and were not "registered" as journalists in Egypt.

Interestingly, the SABC's controversial and famously matricless chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng in South Africa is advocating for the same "rules" for media and journalists in South Africa, wanting journalists to be "regulated" and registered.

At the conclusion of the retrial this morning, journalists Mohamed Fahmy from Canada and Baher Mohamed from Egypt were immediately taken into custody.

Australian journalist Peter Greste who was released and deported at the beginning of February this year, was convicted and sentenced by judge Hassan Farid in absentia in the farcical trial.

In the harsh judgment, judge Hassan Farid said that Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste were not journalists because they were operating without a press licence and were never "registered" to practice journalism or to be journalists in Egypt.

Both were sentenced to more time in prison because judge Hassan Farid said they were not journalists.

Al Jazeera said the TV news channel is "sickened" by the "disgusting" conviction of its journalists.

Giles Trendle, Al Jazeera's acting managing director for Al Jazeera English appeared on the channel on Saturday morning, saying he is "shocked, sickened, appalled at today's verdict".

"They were arrested on false charges, they've been convicted without a shred of evidence, they were imprisoned for over a year. And now they're going back to prison. It's disgraceful, it's disgusting. We are shocked," said Giles Trendle.

"The safety and well-being of our staff is of paramount importance," said Giles Trendle.

"The judge said one of the reasons they were there [in prison] is because they were not members of the Egyptian journalists' syndicate. Well, obviously foreign journalists ... the syndicate is for Egyptian journalists," said Giles Trendle.

The three journalists were arrested in December 2013 after a raid on the Marriott Hotel in Cairo and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison in 2014. International pressure forced a retrial.

This is the second trial in Egypt in the two trials that both had several postponements. The journalists will continue with yet another retrial - the last one allowed.

"Today's verdict defies logic and common sense," says dr. Mostefa Souag, Al Jazeera's acting director-general in a statement issued on Saturday.

"Al Jazeera will continue to call for their freedom and an end to the ordeal for Baher Mohamed, Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy and the six Al Jazeera staff who were sentenced in absentia."

"The support shown for Baher Mohamed, Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy has been loud and unified and has come from every corner of the world, from world leaders, journalists, human rights organisations and the general public."

"Al Jazeera calls on everyone to continue to fight for the freedom of speech, for the right of people to be informed and for the right of journalists around the world to be able to do their job," says dr. Mostefa Souag.

"We will not rest until Baher Mohamed, Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy and the six Al Jazeera staff sentenced in absentia are freed and formally and definitely acquitted from the trumped up charges against them."

Mohamed Fahmy has since distances himself from Al Jazeera and blasted the Qatar based 24-hour TV news channel, and accusing Al Jazeera of blatantly placing his life and the lives of his colleagues in grave danger, lying about Al Jazeera's lega status in Egypt.

Mohamed Fahmy who is also suing Al Jazeera for damages in a Candian court, also slammed Al Jazeera for displaying editorial bias in favour of Islamists.

Reporters Without Borders says it "reiterates its call for the acquittal of Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste".

"We urge the Egyptian authorities to terminate the trial by dismissing all charges against the journalists. This judicial sham must end with everyone being acquitted," says Christopher Deloire, secretary-general of  Reporters Without Borders.

With at least 15 journalists detained in connection with their work, Egypt is the world's fourth biggest prison for media personnel (after China, Eritrea and Iran) and is ranked 158th out of 180 countries in the 2015 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index.

'CNN Shame on You': CNN International becomes the news in Egypt; decides to stay out of Cairo's Tahrir Square.

CNN International (DStv 401) has become the news in Egypt and is staying away from the ground of Tahrir Square after the 24-hour TV news channel incorrectly identified a group of protesters as supporters of the ousted Egyptian president, and because Egyptians are upset at CNN International for referring to Mohamed Morsi's ouster as a "coup".

Protesters in Egypt are upset that CNN International called the events rocking Egypt a coup - which in fact it is. Egyptians are also angry at CNN International after the news channel mistakenly labelled a group "pro-Morsi" supporters when they were in fact opposed to his leadership.

In Cairo Egyptians have been seen waving "CNN Shame on You' posters as well as "CNN Supports Terrorism" posters.

Ben Wedeman, CNN's senior international correspondent in Cairo said the backlash against CNN's coverage made him feel unsafe to return to Tahrir Square. "All networks make mistakes which we try to correct but in this case we've had to stay out of Tahrir to avoid trouble," Ben Wedeman wrote.


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