Just a few days before Christmas, the Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste released a letter from his Cairo jail cell praising his supporters fighting not just for his release, but also for the freedom of the press worldwide. "As we approach the end of our first year in prison, I cannot help but feel proud and strengthened by all that has been achieved so far," said journalist Peter Greste in a letter from a Cairo jail cell. "We have galvanized an incredible coalition of political, diplomatic and media figures, as well as a vast army of social media supporters to fight for that most basic of rights: the right to know," the former BBC correspondent wrote. "We haven't won this fight yet -- we are still behind bars after all -- but we have made our cause abundantly and unequivocally clear," the letter reads. "And for that reason, it really is a very good Christmas." Last June, an Egyptian court sentenced Greste and his colleagues Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed to seven years in prison on charges of disseminating false news and supporting a terrorist organization. But this week Qatar shut down an Al Jazeera-run affiliate accused by the Cairo government of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, a group now considered a terror
