Venturing into Africa was not a bad idea, but assuming her had known, he won’t be currently serving 7years jail term in Cairo Egypt Prison. Frankly speaking, Peter's offence was that he works for al-Jazeera. If you are exposing and exploiting the depth of the negative side of the New Government in Egypt then you are a liar, terrorist supporter.
And that’s exactly what the charges were: supporting the Brotherhood and spreading false news. For those who do not who Peter is Peter Greste left his native Australia in 1991, to pursue his dream of becoming a foreign correspondent. Since then, he has covered Afghanistan and Central Asia, the Balkans, Iraq, Latin America and now Africa where he has lived for the past nine years.
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In 2011, he won a prestigious Peabody Award for a documentary on Somalia - a place that has become a major focus of his work since moving to East Africa. The region he covers includes the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and South Sudan); Kenya and Tanzania; and the Great Lakes states (Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo). Many of us do not know Peter, because he is not a rapper nor an international actor but this is a foreign correspondent who is Just doing his Job. Based on an equal absence of evidence - and an equal disregard for facts - his two co-accused Al Jazeera colleagues, Egyptian-Canadian Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed, have been jailed for seven and 10 years respectively.
Has his father James Creste rightly said "Journalism is not a crime, or you should all be behind bars? It's a simple as that," he told reporters. "Our son Peter is an award- winning journalist, he is not a criminal." I feel for you and the other Journalists who are dying in prisons around the Globe. Our Prayers are with you Peter.
Journalism is not a crime.
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