By Hend Kortam and Rana Muhammad Taha In December 2013, the serene Marriott Hotel in Cairo’s posh island of Zamalek was the site of the arrest of three journalists working for Qatari network Al Jazeera. The ensuing developments in the story made headlines worldwide and attracted international attention, mostly to Egypt’s media climate. An Egyptian court is set to rule on the three journalists, accused of spreading false news, on Thursday. “I was an Australian journalist in Cairo on a short assignment, doing my job as an independent reporter with all the balance, fairness and integrity I could muster,” said Peter Greste, one of the three journalists arrested. “I have no affiliations with any particular political or religious group in Egypt or anywhere else for that matter,” Greste said, in an emailed response to Aswat Masriya’s questions. Greste and colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy would spend no less than 400 days, each in an Egyptian jail, before their release in February 2015 on different days and under different conditions. The trio was put on trial and initially sentenced to prison in June 2014. However, a higher court, the Court…
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