An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned until June 5 a trial against 20 Al Jazeera journalists charged with aiding members of a "terrorist organization."
Three of the Qatar-based television network's journalists - Peter Greste, an Australian, Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian national, and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian - were detained in Cairo on December 29 and remain in custody.
The latest session witnessed members of the technical committee, assigned to review the video evidence, detail the findings. Defense attorneys were also allowed to ask the committee members questions.
Fahmy spoke to the committee members from inside the cage.
"Ninety percent of the videos that Jazeera English have are in the English language. The gentleman mentioned that he watched the videos; no one is able to analyze these videos except if that person is able to speak in English. My question is, did you analyze these videos in the sense that they changed, were neutral or biased towards one party, like the Muslim Brotherhood for example, and do you speak English or not?" Fahmy asked.
Earlier this year, an Egyptian prosecutor said that Al Jazeera journalists had published lies harming national interest and had supplied money, equipment and information to 16 Egyptians.
The foreigners were also accused of using unlicensed broadcasting equipment.
The video evidence that prosecutors say belongs to the defendants were shown during previous sessions. The videos consisted of interviews with prominent political figures, private videos and photographs.
Family members have remained optimistic.
Mohamed Fahmy's brother, Adel, said that the session was a great success due to the failure of the technical committee to repeated the "rehearsed statements."
"Today I think that great things have happened. The technical committee has been exposed. The instructions they received to give certain responses and rehearse the responses to each and every question and I believe that everything is firing back now in the prosecution's case. The small case is unfounded. It should have never become a case or a trial and its becoming clear for everyone to see now that it is completely unjust."
Al Jazeera has called the accusations absurd.
Both state and private Egyptian media have fanned anti-Brotherhood sentiment, suggesting anyone associated with the veteran movement is a traitor and threat to national security.
Egyptians often ask journalists in the streets whether they work for Al Jazeera. Saying yes could mean a beating.
The Brotherhood renounced violence as a means of political change decades ago and says it remains committed to peaceful activism, denying any association with the surge in Islamist insurgent violence since Morsi's downfall.
The crackdown on dissent has raised questions about Egypt's democratic credentials three years after an uprising toppled veteran autocratic president Hosni Mubarak and raised hopes of greater freedoms. Morsi won power in a free election in 2012.
AP