AMSTERDAM — Dutch journalist Rena Netjes has fled Egypt after it emerged she was one of 20 journalists accused last week of “fabricating news” and being party to an alleged terrorist plot.

“If the Egyptian authorities had arrested me, I don’t know what I would have done. Conditions in Egyptian prison cells are horrible. As a woman, you are also afraid of getting raped, especially if you are labeled as a terrorist," Netjes told Al-Monitor Feb. 5, one day after her arrival in the Netherlands.

Netjes, who is accused of spreading false news while allegedly working for Al Jazeera media network in Egypt, is relieved to have left the country. She said, “Thank god for the Dutch Embassy in Cairo. They saved my life."

When the prosecutors’ list was made public and contained "Johanna Indenietta" (the journalist's full name is Johanna Henrietta Netjes), the Dutch Embassy called her. Netjes discovered she was indeed on the list of those accused of belonging to what the authorities are calling Al Jazeera’s “Marriott cell,” named after the hotel that foreign Al Jazeera correspondents have used as a base since Egyptian authorities closed down their offices.