Nepalese journalists and law students demanding the release of journalists for the Al Jazeera broadcaster held in Egypt demonstrated outside the Egyptian Embassy in Kathmandu yesterday. Egypt’s interim president has pledged to help resolve the controversial trial of jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste, in a letter that the reporter’s Al-Jazeera channel called an “encouraging sign.” Greste and two other journalists with the Doha-based broadcaster’s English network are charged with spreading false news and aiding the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood of deposed president Mohamed Mursi, who was overthrown by the army in July 2013.
