Al Jazeera's managing director said on Thursday (January 1) that the Egyptian courts had taken a step in the right direction by ordering a retrial of the three jailed journalists from the network. Mustafa Souag called for their immediate release. A retrial was ordered by Egypt's highest court on Thursday, citing procedural flaws in the original trial. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed were sentenced to seven to 10 years in June on charges including spreading lies to help a 'terrorist organisation' - a reference to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
