Cairo criminal court will resume Thursday the trial of Qatari network Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed in the case publicly known as "Marriott terrorist cell". The defendants face charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, disturbing the public peace, and publishing false news. Last year, the court sentenced Baher, Fahmy, and the Australian journalist Peter Greste to seven years in prison. On February 1, Egypt released and deported Greste after the decision of President Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi as per the presidential decree no. 140 in 2014, which stipulates that jailed foreigners are to be deported to spend their sentences in their own countries or to be retried there.
