Amal Clooney in Egyptian court for Al-Jazeera case

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Lawyer representing Armenia, Amal Clooney, is seen on January 28, 2015 before the start of the appeal hearing in Perincek case at the European Court of Human Rights in the eastern French city of the Strasbourg.

CAIRO — An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison.

The court issued the verdict Saturday in the long-running trial criticized worldwide by press freedom advocates and human rights activists.

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Freed Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste smiles as he answers a question during an event in central London, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015.

Amal Clooney arrived in an Egyptian court to represent one of the three Al-Jazeera English journalists on trial.

Saturday marked Clooney’s first time for her to appear in court in Egypt to represent Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy.

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In this Thursday, June 4, 2015 file photo, Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, left, and his Egyptian colleague Baher Mohammed listen in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt.

The three Al-Jazeera journalists — Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed — were detained in December 2013 while effective for the Doha-based network.

The three first were sentenced to prison before Egypt’s highest court ordered a retrial on charges of them allegedly being part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which authorities have declared a terrorist organization, and airing falsified footage intended to hurt national security.

Egypt deported Greste in February. Fahmy and Mohammed were later released on bail.

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