Egypt jails al-Jazeera journalists

Three Al-Jazeera journalists are arrested in Egypt's capital Cairo for allegedly holding illegal meetings with the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

>The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the Ethiopian government’s arrests of nine journalists in one of the worst crackdowns against freedom of expression in the country. “With the latest arrests, Ethiopian authorities are turning the peaceful exercise of freedom of expression into a crime,” said CPJ East Africa Representative Tom Rhodes.

A Cairo court orders the release on bail of two Al Jazeera journalists being retried on the charge of spreading false news to help a terrorist group.

Two Al Jazeera journalists imprisoned in Egypt for more than a year, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed, leave prison after being bailed by a court.

Three al-Jazeera journalists are again denied bail by a court in Egypt, despite a personal plea from one of them on World Press Freedom Day.

Activists accused of violating a controversial protest law are sentenced to three years in jail by an Egyptian court.

Three prominent Egyptian pro-democracy campaigners are sentenced to three years in jail for organising an unauthorised protest.

An Egyptian court jails Alaa Abdel Fattah, a key figure in the 2011 uprising, for five years at a retrial for breaking protest laws.

A court in Egypt sentences 69 Islamists to life in prison for looting and setting fire to a church in a town near Cairo in August 2013.