Kenya: Journalists protest jailings in Egypt

By Jason Straziuso

Published February 4, 2014 4:40pm ET

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Kenya: Journalists protest jailings in Egypt — A photojournalist wears a tee-shirt showing the face of detained Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste at a demonstration by Kenyan and Nairobi-based foreign media calling for the release of Greste and his colleagues, outside the Egyptian embassy in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Nairobi-based correspondent Greste was taken into custody in Egypt on Dec. 29 and is among 20 journalists working for Al-Jazeera, including four foreigners, who will face trial there on charges of joining or aiding a terrorist group and endangering national security - an escalation that raised fears of a crackdown on freedom of the press. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) | Ben Curtis

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Journalists in Kenya’s capital shouted slogans and marched through the streets Tuesday before sitting outside the Egyptian Embassy in support of jailed reporters in Cairo.

The protesting media members and supporters called for all journalists jailed in Egypt to be freed, but the group focused its attention on Peter Greste, a Nairobi-based correspondent for Al Jazeera who has been in custody since Dec. 29.

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