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Egypt's Sisi says he wishes Al Jazeera journalists were not tried

Egypt's President Sisi speaks during a joint news conference with Sudan's President Bashir in Khartoum By Ali Abdelaty CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made his first sympathetic remarks about three imprisoned Al Jazeera journalists, saying he wished they had been deported and not put on trial, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Monday. An Egyptian court last month handed down prison sentences of seven to 10 years to Australian reporter Peter Greste; "The verdict had very negative effects," Egypt's Al-Masry Al-Youm private newspaper quoted Sisi as saying during a meeting with local journalists on Sunday.




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