Brushing aside protests from the governments of Western countries, including the United States, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt said Tuesday that he would not interfere in the case of three journalists from Al Jazeera’s English-language service who have each been sentenced to at least seven years in prison.

Mr. Sisi, the former military strongman, was speaking just a day after a court issued its verdict for the journalists, Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian citizen of Egyptian descent who previously worked for CNN, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times; Peter Greste, an Australian, who previously worked for the BBC and had spent only a few days in Egypt at the time of his arrest; and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian who previously worked for a Japanese newspaper, The Asahi Shimbun.