{"id":15322,"date":"2014-07-08T05:44:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-s-president-sisi-regrets-al-jazeera-trial\/"},"modified":"2014-07-08T05:43:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:43:49","slug":"egypt-s-president-sisi-regrets-al-jazeera-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-s-president-sisi-regrets-al-jazeera-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt’s President Sisi ‘regrets’ al-Jazeera trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has said he wishes the three al-Jazeera journalists imprisoned last month had never been put on trial, reports say.}}<\/p>\n

Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were sentenced to between seven and 10 years in jail after being found guilty of aiding a “terrorist group”.<\/p>\n

Mr Sisi was quoted by the al-Masry al-Youm newspaper late on Sunday as saying the trial had “very negative effects”.<\/p>\n

His remarks received a mixed response from the journalists’ families.<\/p>\n

Foreign governments, media organisations and human rights groups accused the Egyptian authorities of restricting freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

Al-Jazeera said it defied “logic, sense and any semblance of justice”.<\/p>\n

{{‘Amicable solution’}}<\/p>\n

At a meeting with local journalists on Sunday, President Sisi sought to counter claims that the case had been politically motivated.<\/p>\n

“The verdict issued against a number of journalists had very negative effects; and we had nothing to do with it,” he said, according to al-Masry al-Youm. <\/p>\n

“I wished they were deported immediately after they were arrested instead of being put on trial.”<\/p>\n

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