True Journalism is becoming an endangered occupation and at the rate the threat is going, the career might go extinct if nothing is done about it. According to a report on daily mail;
An Egyptian judge bid a journalist being held on terror charges 'Happy World Press Freedom Day' after the reporter made a desperate plea for freedom from his cage.
Mohammed Fahmy is one of three Al-Jazeera journalists being held by the Egyptian authorities after they were charged with altering film footage to support the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mr Fhamy, the Canadian-Egyptian acting Al-Jazeera bureau chief, was allowed to leave his cage in the court room and stood directly before the judge's bench as he told the official that journalists have to speak to all sides to do their jobs.
But his request for bail was unsuccessful, with Judge Mohamed Nagi Shehata refusing to release Mr Fahmy and his fellow Al-Jazeera employees, Baher Mohammed and former BBC reporter Peter Greste.
And the judge even wished Mr Fahy a 'happy' World Press Freedom Day as he denied the request.
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