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Trial of Al Jazeera journalists adjourned to 22 April
Prosecution presents videos it claims prove Al Jazeera was doctoring footage; hunger-striking defendant faints in court
El Sayed Gamal El Deen Published in Ahram Online on 10 - 04 - 2014

The trial of 20 journalists -- a number of whom work for Al Jazeera -- has been adjourned to 22 April.
Sixteen Egyptians are accused of joining a terrorist organisation -- a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, officially designated a terrorist group in December -- and harming national unity and social peace. Four foreigners are accused of aiding a terrorist organisation.
In Thursday's session, prosecutors presented what they said was evidence proving Al Jazeera was doctoring video footage and photos for its own agenda.
According to Ahram Online's reporter in court, prosecutors showed a video by Sky News Arabia about horses in Egypt, a documentary by Al Jazeera reporter Peter Greste about Somalia, and a video about the bombings in Kenya in 2013.
The court ordered a special committee to inspect the videos.
Defendant Khaled Abdel-Raouf fainted inside his cage during the session.
Abdel-Raouf and two other defendants are on a hunger strike to protest their innocence and insist they were not working for Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera English journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed have been in custody since late December.
Some elements in the Egyptian media refer to them as the 'Marriott cell', after the hotel in which they were arrested.
Australian reporter Greste is the only foreign defendant in detention. Two Britons, Sue Turton and Dominic Kane, and Dutch journalist Rena Netjes, who fled the country after being indicted despite not working for the channel, are currently abroad and are being tried in absentia.
Representatives from Amnesty International and the British embassy attended the session.
"British embassy attending trials of foreign and Egyptian journalists today in Cairo. Ensuring media freedom is vital," the UK's deputy ambassador Stephen Hickey said via Twitter on Thursday.
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