Egypt Finally Freed Al Jazeera Journalist After Spending 400 Days in Jail

Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released on Sunday and deported after 400 days in jail on charges of faked reporting and collaborating with the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The veteran television reporter was driven to Cairo Airport in the afternoon and put on a flight for Cyprus, officials told dpa.

The Qatar-based network called on Egyptian authorities to free his colleagues; Baher Mohammed and Mohammed Fahmy as well, calling Greste’s release as good news, but not enough.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi ordered Greste’s deportation under a November decree allowing him to expel foreign defendants and convicts “in the supreme national interest”.

The imprisonment of the three journalists has been condemned by human rights and media freedom groups, with Amnesty International saying no concrete evidence in support of the charges had been presented in court.

The journalists along with the three students, thought to be Muslim Brotherhood activists were convicted in June of providing material support to the Brotherhood and “producing fabricated coverage of events in Egypt.

Mohammed received an additional three-year jail term for possessing a round of ammunition.

Wow! Convicted Sexual Predator Gets Re-Elected From Jail!

It’s not every day that a politician with a county jail-issued ankle monitor accused of having sex with his 17-year-old secretary campaigns for re-election, and wins. But that’s exactly what happened Tuesday in the Richmond, Va., suburb of Henrico County, where Joseph Morrissey snagged 42 percent of the vote to win re-election to the state’s House of Delegates, all while serving out a six-month jail sentence, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported. And he did it while running as an independent.

US Man Sentenced To 50 Years In Jail In Kenya Over Child Porn

An American man accused of sexually abusing Kenyan children and circulating the images on the Internet who was arrested and charged with circulating obscene depictions of children on social media sites (child pornography) between May 2013 and October 2014 has been jailed. Terry Ray Krieger, 59, had earlier fled to Germany before he was arrested and brought back to face the law. After pleading not guilty in court, Terry was forced to admit being guilty when all charges against him seems impossible to deny. He was sentenced to 50 years in jail today by a Kenyan court.