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Cairo hearing in Al Jazeera journalists' retrial adjourned - Al Jazeera

  • Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (L) and Baher Mohamed hug as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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    Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed hug as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo

    Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (L) and Baher Mohamed hug as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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  • Al Jazeera television journalist Baher Mohamed (L) talks on the mobile as journalist Mohamed Fahmy (C) reaches out to shake hands with a TV journalist as they arrive outside Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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    Al Jazeera television journalist Baher Mohamed talks on the mobile as journalist Mohamed Fahmy reaches out to shake hands with a TV journalist as they arrive outside Tora prison in Cairo

    Al Jazeera television journalist Baher Mohamed (L) talks on the mobile as journalist Mohamed Fahmy (C) reaches out to shake hands with a TV journalist as they arrive outside Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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  • Al Jazeera television journalist Mohamed Fahmy (L) announces he got married to his fiance Marwa Omara next to journalist Baher Mohamed (C) as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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    Al Jazeera television journalist Mohamed Fahmy announces he got married to his fiance Marwa Omara next to journalist Baher Mohamed as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo

    Al Jazeera television journalist Mohamed Fahmy (L) announces he got married to his fiance Marwa Omara next to journalist Baher Mohamed (C) as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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  • Police and army soldiers are seen in front of a tank as they guard outside Tora prison, where Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were held and are having their retrial, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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    Police and army soldiers are seen in front of a tank as they guard outside Tora prison in Cairo

    Police and army soldiers are seen in front of a tank as they guard outside Tora prison, where Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were held and are having their retrial, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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    Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed talk to the media outside Tora prison

    Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (L) and Baher Mohamed talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
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Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (L) and Baher Mohamed hug as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
Al Jazeera television journalist Baher Mohamed (L) talks on the mobile as journalist Mohamed Fahmy (C) reaches out to shake hands with a TV journalist as they arrive outside Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
Al Jazeera television journalist Mohamed Fahmy (L) announces he got married to his fiance Marwa Omara next to journalist Baher Mohamed (C) as they talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
Police and army soldiers are seen in front of a tank as they guard outside Tora prison, where Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were held and are having their retrial, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (L) and Baher Mohamed talk to the media outside Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih
By Shadi Bushra

By Shadi Bushra CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court session which had been expected to deliver a verdict on Thursday in the retrial of Al Jazeera television journalists has been adjourned, Al Jazeera said on its Twitter feed. The reason for the postponement was not clear and there was no official confirmation or response from judicial authorities. "We are extremely angry that the verdict has been adjourned today," Al Jazeera Media Network's spokesperson tweeted on @AJENews. A judicial source told Reuters that the Cairo criminal court had decided to postpone the verdict hearing to Aug. 2, a date also quoted by state news agency MENA. A Reuters journalist spoke to three guards outside the court building who said that there would be no hearing on Thursday, without giving a reason. The journalists are charged with aiding a terrorist organisation, a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was outlawed in Egypt after the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi amid mass protests against his rule in 2013. Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalised Canadian who has given up his Egyptian citizenship, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were released on bail in February after spending more than a year in custody. A third Al Jazeera journalist, Australian Peter Greste, was deported in February. "All this is very stressful for ourselves and our families," Fahmy told reporters outside the court building. "We came here prepared to hear the verdict and then we find out that it's not going to happen without any real reason given. That doesn't make sense," he said. The journalists were originally sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison on charges including spreading lies to help a terrorist organisation, which they have denied. Egypt's high court ordered a retrial in January. (Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy; Writing by Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Louise Ireland)