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View all search resultsAmal Clooney 'threatened with arrest'
British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney claimed in an interview published Saturday that she was threatened with arrest in Egypt after identifying flaws in the judicial system that later contributed to the convictions of three Al-Jazeera journalists
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ritish human rights lawyer Amal Clooney claimed in an interview published Saturday that she was threatened with arrest in Egypt after identifying flaws in the judicial system that later contributed to the convictions of three Al-Jazeera journalists.
Clooney, a rights lawyer who married Hollywood star George Clooney last year, helped compile a report for the International Bar Association in February 2014 that raised questions about the independence of judges and prosecutors in Egypt.
'When I went to launch the report, first of all they stopped us from doing it in Cairo,' she told the Guardian newspaper.
'They said: 'Does the report criticize the army, the judiciary, or the government?' We said: 'Well, yes.' They said: 'Well then, you're risking arrest,'' said Clooney, who is one of the lawyers representing one of the trio of Al-Jazeera reporters currently detained in Cairo.
The report, based on a fact-finding mission made in mid-2013, warned about the wide powers that ministers had over judges and highlighted a record of selective prosecutions.
One of the recommendations in Clooney's report was to end the practice that allows Egyptian officials to handpick judges in certain politicized cases.
Egypt's top court on Thursday ordered a retrial of Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, but kept the journalists in custody pending a new hearing.
Fahmy -- whom Clooney represents -- and Greste are seeking deportation, while Mohamed's wife said she was looking at ways to get her husband out of Egypt.
