Al Jazeera's ad in the New York Times

June 25, 2014 12:02

Al Jazeera's full-page ad in The New York Times: "This is what happens when you silence journalists."

Three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed for seven years each by an Egyptian judge on Monday. Cairo defended the journalists' convictions - for aiding a "terrorist organisation" - and rejected the widespread condemnation as "interference in its internal affairs".

The three, who all denied the charge of working with the now banned Muslim Brotherhood, included Australian Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian national Mohamed Fahmy, Cairo bureau chief of Al Jazeera English.

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