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Al Jazeera Producer Sentenced Over Torture Video
by Rob Corder on Thursday, 03 May 2007
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12145
An Al Jazeera television producer has been sentenced to six months in jail,
or a fine of $1,760 for her role in creating a program that exposed torture
techniques being used the Egyptian police. Howayda Taha has been on bail and
did not attend the court hearing in Cairo. Al Jazeera's Egypt office said it
would support her appeal of the verdict.
She will not be jailed while that appeal is heard. In court, Taha was found
guilty of damaging the country's supreme interests and possessing fabricated
video material that would damage Egypt's reputation, with intent to broadcast
it.
She was arrested in January when it emerged that she and her team were
collating feature material including recordings of genuine torture incidents
and reconstructions of torture incidents using actors.
Back in January, Reporters Without Borders, a pressure group that supports
press freedom around the world, condemned the decision to initiate trial
proceedings against Al-Jazeera TV producer.
"We are deeply concerned about the number of journalists and bloggers who are
being brought before the courts in Egypt," the organisation said at the time.
"Like so many other journalists, Taha is paying a high price for denouncing the
abusive practices of a regime that is unable to shake off its old authoritarian
reflexes."
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First They Came for the EXTREMIST, FUNDAMENTALIST & MODERATE Muslims. And I
DIDNT Speak Out Because I Wasn't An Extremist, Fundamentalist or a Moderate
Muslim. Then FINALLY They Came for Me the NON-PRACTICING Muslim And NO Muslims
Were Left to Speak Out for ME.
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