Canadians urge PM to work to free journalist jailed in Egypt
by Associated Press
TORONTOSep 10, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Associated Press
Sep 10, 2015 12:00 am
Some 300 prominent Canadians have sent a letter to Canada's prime minister urging him to take action to get Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy freed from an Egyptian prison and returned to Canada. Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louise Arbour and author Michael Ondaatje are among those who signed the letter to Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The Committee to Protect Journalists also joined in the call for Harper to do more. Fahmy, a Canadian, was sentenced to three years in prison.
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