Al Jazeera Media Network employees organised a  meeting yesterday to express solidarity with their  two colleagues detained in Egypt and called for their immediate release.  
Correspondent Abdullah al-Shami and Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr cameraman Mohamed Badr have been detained in Egypt since August and July, respectively.
The gathering in front of the Al Jazeera Arabic studios included speeches by Al Jazeera’s top management and family members of the detained staff, including al-Shami’s wife and Badr’s father.
Dr Mostefa Souag, managing director of Al Jazeera Arabic Channel, said: “Al Jazeera is here to deliver the truth and it is time for those people in power to realise that the threatening pressure on journalists and the ensuing lack of media freedom needs to stop – the truth will always prevail.”
He extended gratitude for the work done by Al Jazeera journalists by putting their lives on the line every day.
These sentiments were shared by Ghassan Abu Hussein, manager of Al Jazeera’s communications and international relations department, who stressed to the general public and the detained journalists in specific that “Al Jazeera is with you and has been with you since Day 1. This is the message we deliver to the world today”.
Ayman Gaballah, director of Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr and a former detainee in Egypt himself, said: “Those who attempt to imprison the truth only imprison themselves.”