Egypt finds Al Jazeera journalists guilty. Way to go, Mr. President.

(Release aid funds to Egypt for arms, 3 days before this travesty. Express via your SoS, your enthusiastic backing for strongman Al-Sisi just before this. Well done, Obama administration!)

Two Al Jazeera English journalists have been sentenced to seven years in jail and one to ten years behind bars by an Egyptian court on charges inclluding aiding the Muslim Brotherhood and reporting false news.

The guilty verdicts were delivered by a judge on Monday against Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed.

Greste and Fahmy was sentenced to seven years in jail, while Baher Mohamed was sentenced to an additional three years for possession of ammunition.

Other Al Jazeera journalists being tried in absentia were sentenced to 10 years. Their names are: Alaa Bayoumi, Anas Abdel-Wahab Khalawi Hasan, Khaleel Aly Khaleel Bahnasy, Mohamed Fawzi, Dominic Kane and Sue Turton.

Al Jazeera has always rejected the charges against its journalists and maintains their innocence.

Greste, Fahmy and Mohamed were arrested in December in Cairo as they covered the aftermath of the army's removal of Mohamed Morsi from the presidency in July.

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/egypt-finds-al-jazeera-journalists-guilty-201462373539293797.html