Egypt's top court has ordered a retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists jailed for spreading false news.
Prosecutors acknowledged major problems with the verdict, defence lawyers said. A new trial will occur within a month but the trio must stay in custody.
The journalists deny collaborating with the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
They say they were simply reporting the news.They were accused of aiding the banned organisation after the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the military in 2013.
Two of them are foreign nationals - Peter Greste, a former BBC correspondent, is Australian, and his producer colleague Mohammed Fahmy holds Egyptian and Canadian citizenship.
The three journalists have now spent a year in jail since they were first arrested in December 2013.
They were convicted in June - with Fahmy and Greste jailed for seven years and Mohamed for 10 years.
Judges have ruled that they should remain in custody until the new trial.

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