Cairo — The Egyptian Court of Cassation ordered on Thursday the retrial of three journalists from Qatari news network al-Jazeera sentenced to seven to ten years in prison last year for charges including creating a "terrorist media cell".
The defendants are to remain in prison until the first session of their retrail, when the court can order their release pending the trial, a judicial source said.
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