Canadian Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy: 'Al Jazeera Is Sponsor Of Muslim Brotherhood'.

Canadian Al Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy: 'Al Jazeera Is Sponsor Of Muslim Brotherhood'. (GMBR).

Malaysian media is reporting that Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian Al-Jazeera journalist currently on trial in Egypt on terror-related charges, has alleged that Al-Jazeera “were sponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood.” According to The Star report:

CAIRO—Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian journalist on trial in Egypt on terror-related charges, has filed a lawsuit in Canadian court against his employer Al Jazeera for $100 million, accusing the Qatari news network of negligence and breach of contract. 

In a case that sparked worldwide condemnation of Egypt’s government, Fahmy was jailed for more than 400 days with his two Al Jazeera English colleagues, Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed and Australian correspondent Peter Greste. 

Egyptian prosecutors accused the three of spreading false news harmful to national security and of belonging to or aiding the Muslim Brotherhood, which authorities designated a terrorist group in December 2013, six months after Muslim Brotherhood-aligned president Mohammed Morsi, was overthrown. 

In January, an appeals court threw out their convictions — they had been sentenced to between seven and 10 years — and ordered retrials, which are still ongoing. 

At a press conference Monday in the Cairo Four Seasons hotel, Fahmy, who has been out on bail since February, accused his employer of taking actions that helped land him in jail. 

Fahmy said Al Jazeera acted as ‘an arm of Qatar’s foreign policy’ and ‘was not only biased towards the Muslim Brotherhood — they were sponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood.’ Read the full story here.

Al Jazeera journalist says Canada not issuing him new passport.

Al Jazeera journalist says Canada not issuing him new passport. (AA).

Al Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who remains in Egypt on bail while awaiting trial on terror charges, said Wednesday Canada is refusing to issue him a new passport.

Fahmy and two other journalists were charged with being part of a terrorist group and airing falsified footage. They deny the charges.

Fahmy, who was born in Egypt and is a naturalised Canadian citizen, was freed from jail in February. He renounced his Egyptian citizenship last year as a condition of any future release from Egypt.

Fahmy said his Canadian passport was confiscated when he was arrested in 2013. He said needs the passport to get married and has run into problems at security checkpoints in Cairo.

Under his bail conditions, Fahmy must check in with police every day and cannot leave Egypt. He said he's on a no-fly list.

"I was shocked to learn for the first time that Canada has been the obstacle in issuing a new passport for me," Fahmy said in an email to The Associated Press. "I am already on the no travel list. Why are they not issuing a passport??!!"

Fahmy provided a letter to The AP that he received from the Canadian embassy that states that Canada "requires that court-imposed mobility restrictions are respected."

The letter states a passport will be provided when "court-imposed travel restrictions against you are lifted."

Erica Meekes, a spokeswoman for Canada's foreign affairs department, said Fahmy will receive a new passport once his bail conditions are met.

Australian journalist Peter Greste, also charged in the case, was deported in February.

Fahmy has long said Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government hasn't done enough to win his release.

"This situation manifests my fears that the reason I had been left behind in Egypt after going through the disturbing motions of the renunciation of the Egyptian citizenship in order to be deported may have been partially due to the bureaucracy in Ottawa and the hyper-conservative approach Mr. Harper's government embraces," he said. Hmmmm......The Canadian gov thinks since he's on a no fly list he's going no where , no need for a passport. Extremely hard to get off that list.