Journalists in Kenya's capital have shouted slogans and marched through the streets before sitting outside the Egyptian Embassy in support of jailed reporters in Cairo.
About 100 protesting media members and supporters on Tuesday called for all journalists jailed in Egypt to be freed, focusing their attention on Australian Peter Greste, a Nairobi-based correspondent for Al Jazeera who has been in custody since December 29.
Twenty journalists working for Al Jazeera face charges of joining or aiding a terrorist group and endangering national security.
The government accuses the news station of being sympathetic to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a powerful, conservative force in the country.
Robyn Kriel, co-chair of the local foreign correspondents association, said she was "thrilled" with the support the group got both at Tuesday's march and on Facebook and Twitter.
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Reading a message to Greste, Kriel said: "We believe unanimously that the Egyptian government is wrong in detaining you. Today, as we deliver this letter to the Egyptian embassy, we unite in calling for the immediate release of you and your colleagues."
Three men working for Al Jazeera - Mohammed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian; Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian; and Greste - were arrested on December 29 in a Cairo hotel.
Greste wrote in a letter from prison that his team was acting as professional journalists employing accuracy, fairness and balance in their stories.
Tom Rhodes, East Africa representative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said at least 10 journalists are confirmed jailed in Egypt, but that the number is likely higher.
"If authorities feel at will to crack down on an international media house you can only imagine what they are doing to local journalists," Rhodes said.
