Al Jazeera journalist detained in Germany
Ahmed
Mansour, a senior Al Jazeera Arabic TV journalist, was detained at a
Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian authorities.
Mansour
was arrested at Berlin’s Tegel airport at 1320 GMT on Saturday as he
tried to board a Qatar Airways flight from Berlin to Doha.
In
a phone call, Mansour told Al Jazeera that he would remain in custody
until Monday when he will face a German judge who will decide on his
case.
Mansour
was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison by Cairo’s criminal
court in 2014 on the charge of torturing a lawyer in Tahrir Square in
2011.
Mansour
rejected the charges as absurd, while Al Jazeera dismissed the
accusation as a flimsy attempt at character assassination against of one
of its leading journalists.
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