1 | Troy Lulashnyk (R), Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, sits with other diplomats at a court in Cairo, Egypt. |
2 | An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed for the second time the verdict in the retrial of Al Jazeera television journalists who have been charged with aiding a terrorist organisation, a reference to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to August 29. |
3 | An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed delivering its verdict in the retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists, a decision a defence lawyer said was to avoid bad publicity during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry and other dignitaries. |
4 | It was the second time the verdict in the internationally sensitive case has been postponed, this time to August 29. |
5 | The journalists deny the charges and Egypt's high court ordered a retrial in January. |
6 | Amal Clooney, one of Mr Fahmy's lawyers, said the adjournment appeared aimed to avoid clashing with Mr Kerry's visit to Cairo on Sunday as well as a lavish inauguration planned on Thursday for a second Suez Canal. |
7 | "The verdict may be coming later; but the world will still be watching," Mrs Clooney said in a statement. |
8 | Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said during a news conference with Mr Kerry that no journalists in Egypt were in jail over their reporting. |