Egypt President Seeks End to Jazeera Reporters’ Detention

By: Caroline Alexander | Bloomberg

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said he’s seeking a resolution to the case of three Al Jazeera television journalists imprisoned for more than a year.

“We are very keen on sorting this out and getting it finished as soon as possible,” El-Sisi said in an interview with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. “We are trying very hard to find a way out within the legal framework and respect the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.