Baher Mohammed

Baher Mohammed (* around 1984 ) is an Egyptian journalist . He worked with Peter Greste and Mohammed Fahmy for the Al-Jazeera broadcaster and was arrested in Cairo in late 2013. Like his colleagues, he is said to have supported the Muslim Brotherhood social movement, which was declared a terrorist organization in Egypt .

Like his colleagues, Mohammed was arrested in December 2013 at the Marriott Hotel in Cairo, where they had set up their office. Like Fahmy, he had worked as a film producer for Greste. The indictment alleged that the three reporters acted in secret and without accreditation . A court sentenced her to prison in June 2014. Baher Mohammed received ten years in prison, his two colleagues seven each. Observers see the proceedings as part of a public campaign against the Al-Jazeera broadcaster, against the Muslim Brotherhood and against ex-President Mohammed Morsi . The dispute between Egypt and Qatar , the station's home country, stems from the fact that the Egyptian military government accuses Qatar of supporting and financing the Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Jazeera is no longer allowed to report from Egypt since Morsi was ousted; and only a few Egyptians are still giving interviews to the station.

At the beginning of January 2015, a Cairo court had set an appeal process for all three journalists. In a press release, the Al-Jazeera television station called on the Egyptian judiciary to release not only the Australian-Latvian journalist Peter Greste but also his colleagues Fahmy and Mohammed.

In September 2015, Baher Mohammed and Mohammed Fahmy were pardoned.

Web links

• Who are the al-Jazeera journalists tried in Egypt? (BBC, February 13, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Astrid Frefel: Controversial judgment in Egypt: Seven years in prison for three Al-Jazeera journalists. Der Tagesspiegel online, June 23, 2014
2. ↑ https://www.amnesty.org.uk/egypt-frees-al-jazeera-staff-mohammed-fahmy-baher-mohamed-prison-journalism