An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al-Jazeera journalists to three years in prison after a retrial.
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were led away from court after the verdict. A third journalist Australian Peter Greste was deported in February.
The broadcaster Al Jazeera has condemned an Egyptian court's decision to sentence three of its journalists to three years in prison after a retrial.
In a statement, the channel's general director Mostefa Souag said: "This judgment is a new attack on the freedom of the press and it's a black day in the history of the Egyptian judiciary."
Mohamed Fahmy a naturalised Canadian who has given up his Egyptian citizenship, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were led away from court after the verdict.
Australian Peter Greste was sentenced in absentia after he was deported in February.
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