The Netherlands has summoned the Egyptian ambassador over Cairo's heavy sentencing of several journalists, including Australian Peter Greste, for allegedly helping the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and will raise the issue with the EU.
"I have summoned the Egyptian ambassador to the ministry and will raise this matter with my European Union colleagues in Luxembourg," Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said in a statement, adding that Dutch journalist Rena Netjes, who was tried in absentia, "did not get a fair trial".
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