Al-Jazeera vows to free journalists in Egypt

CAIRO — The lawyer for Al-Jazeera English correspondent Peter Greste says his three-year jail sentence in Egypt is "unjust" and "plainly political."

Greste was sentenced on Saturday, along with producer Baher Mohammed and acting Cairo bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, to three years in prison. The men were arrested in December 2013 but Greste, an Australian citizen, was deported in February.

In a statement, Greste's lawyer Chris Flynn, says the men's re-trial, "was a sham and was miscarried at every step."

Flynn appealed to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to intervene and pardon the men, saying that el-Sissi, "now has an opportunity to correct this great injustice."

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