New York Times prints a blank back page in support of jailed Al-Jazeera journalists

An Egyptian court on Monday convicted three Al-Jazeera journalists and sentenced them to seven years in prison on terrorism-related charges after a trial dismissed by rights groups as a politically motivated sham. The verdict brought a landslide of international condemnation and calls for the newly elected president to intervene. The New York Times, on Sunday, left its back page almost blank with a message saying, 'This is what happens when you silence journalists' along with the hashtag #FreeAJStaff and the URL aljazeera.com/freeajstaff