Freeing Peter: How an ordinary family fought an extraordinary battle
Viking $35 pb, 320 pp, 9780670079315
Freeing Peter: How an ordinary family fought an extraordinary battle by Juris Greste et al.
It seems appropriate in an account of justice thwarted that the name of journalist Peter Greste’s father is Juris. In 2013, Greste, an Al Jazeera journalist, was accused with colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of conspiring with terrorists and endangering Egyptian security. A show trial followed, and Greste was sentenced to seven years in prison. He says of Juris, his mother Lois, and brothers Michael and Andrew: ‘We fought, struggled, argued and ... loved our way through the ordeal ... Normal family life in other words.’
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