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"SYDNEY, Australia \u2014 Australians vented their outrage Monday and threatened to boycott Egypt as journalist Peter Greste was jailed for seven years on charges of defamation and conspiring to falsify news. Greste was also convicted of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood - a claim he vehemently denies.\nEgyptian authorities arrested Greste, who works for Al-Jazeera, last year along with two of his colleagues in Cairo. The Egyptian interior ministry claimed their reporting was  \u201Cdamaging to national security,\u201D though observers say evidence presented in the trial didn't prove those accusations.\nGreste\u2019s Brisbane-based family reeled from the shock of the verdict in a reaction beamed live to the world on Youtube. \n\nA family friend has described the family as \u201Cabsolutely devastated\u201D at the unexpected outcome of the trial and social media has lit up with messages of support for the family. \nUsing the hashtag #Journalismisnotacrime, many Australians are calling for a boycott on tourism in Egypt until justice is served.\n\n\n\nA bare beginning to getting Peter Greste out of an Egyptian prison for the next seven years, is to CANCEL all Oz tourism there! #AJTrial\u2014 Dame P FitzSimons (@Peter_Fitz) June 23, 2014\n\n\n\n\n \nAbsolutely devastated for @petergreste and family. They won't give up fight. Shame on Egypt. #ajtrial Peter Greste\u2014 Alex Hart (@alexhart7) June 23, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeart breaking for Peter Greste, his co-accused, colleagues and family. A show trial with no purpose. Being a journalist is not a crime.\u2014 Lucy Carter (@lucethoughts) June 23, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeven years????! RT @sharifkouddous #AJTrial: Peter Greste gets seven years\u2014 Latika Bourke (@latikambourke) June 23, 2014\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAppreciate Julie Bishop's comments on the travesty of justice being handed to Peter #Greste in Egypt. Appalling, unacceptable in a democracy\u2014 Penelope Mitchell (@Pennyfay64) June 23, 2014\n\n\n\nThe Greste family said they are shocked by the harsh verdict, and the Australian government has urged Egypt to reflect on the message they are sending to the world.\n\"We are deeply concerned that this verdict is part of a broader attempt to muzzle the press freedom that upholds democracies around the world,\u201D Foreign Minister Julia Bishop said, adding that the Australian government is \u201Cdeeply dismayed\u201D by the verdict and the severe sentence.\n\u201CWe are shocked by this verdict,\" she said at a press conference. \"We are deeply disappointed that a court could come to this decision, and quite simply we do not understand how a court could have come to this decision based on the evidence.\" She added: \u201CPeter Greste is a well respected Australian journalist. He was not there to support the Muslim Brotherhood.\"\nThe Greste family is expected to speak with the Australian media at 10am Tuesday AEST, as Egypt\u2019s ambassador to Egypt meets with the Foreign Affairs and Trade authorities.\n      window._msla=window.loadScriptAsync||function(src,id){if(document.getElementById(id))return;var js=document.createElement('script');js.id=id;js.src=src;document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);};\n_msla(\"//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\",\"twitter_jssdk\");"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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