Al Jazeera Media Network and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression are calling on Egyptian authorities to immediately release five journalists detained there. (Al-Jazeera website)
Al Jazeera will hold a news conference today — which will stream live on CBC.ca — to call on Egyptian authorities to release five journalists held there for more than a month.
On Dec. 29, Canadian-Egyptian journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste, and Bahar Mohammed of Al Jazeera English were imprisoned in Cairo. Their Al Jazeera colleagues, Abdullah Al Shami and Mohammed Badr, are also in Egyptian custody.
Owen Watson, Al Jazeera's executive of news gathering will be joined at the news conference by:
- Tony Burman, former managing director of Al Jazeera English.
- John Stackhouse, editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail.
- Tom Henheffer, executive director of the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).
- Michelle Shephard CJFE board member and Toronto Star national security reporter.
- John Greyson, filmmaker and York University professor.
- Avi Lewis, journalist and CBC veteran.
- Dave Enders, friend and former colleague of Mohamed Fahmy.
The news conference is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. ET. CBC.ca will livestream the event, which you can watch by clicking on the image that appears at the top of this story.
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