Al-Jazeera condemns TV reporter's conviction

The pan-Arab TV channel Al-Jazeera today condemned a Spanish court’s finding that one of its journalists had collaborated with terrorism, accusing the judges of violating legal principles.

“It was a black day in the history of the Spanish justice,” Al-Jazeera news editor Ahmed al-Sheik told the channel from Madrid minutes after the court sentenced Tayseer Alouni to seven years’ imprisonment for “collaboration with a terrorist organisation.”