The embarrassing Associated Press tweet about Amal Clooney's defence of Al Jazeera journalists.

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When it comes to describing Amal Clooney, there’s an abundance of titles that could be used: human rights lawyer, activist, accomplished author, barrister, even university lecturer.

As someone who has represented defendants in many of the world’s biggest human rights cases (ahem, Julian Assange or Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Fahmy) Amal could easily be considered one of the world’s most accomplished women in the legal sphere and yet The Associated Press decided to ignore all of these titles when they described Clooney in a recent tweet.

What did they decide to go with instead? Actor’s wife – yep that’s right.

Amal Clooney, actor’s wife, representing Al-Jazeera journalist accused in Egypt of ties to extremists http://t.co/i6nQg0xPg3

— The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2015

Yes, Amal is married to Hollywood actor George Clooney and – but on a day where Amal was busy representing her client, Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Fahmy, diminishing all of her achievements down to ‘actor’s wife’ is a sexist slur against Clooney and the tireless work she is doing to keep Fahmy out of prison.

Actor’s wife? Really, @AP? This is how you identify an accomplished attorney? smh https://t.co/OpGtXOs3Sq — Kristen Doerschner (@BCT_KDoerschner) August 29, 2015

.@AP As with most things, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey say it best http://t.co/YbCZvyuCUb #ajretrial #AmalClooney @JointDestroyer #actorswife

— MelShoe (@ItsMelShoe) August 29, 2015

  AP realised their mistake and sent out a more accurate tweet a few hours later:

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney criticizes prison terms handed down to three Al-Jazeera English journalists http://t.co/66vCWMt1Gb — The Associated Press (@AP) August 29, 2015

Amal Clooney who has bigger fish to fry than worrying about AP’s condescending and sexist remark, warned of the “dangerous” implications this Al Jazeera verdict would cause.

“The verdict today sends a very dangerous message in Egypt,” said Clooney after the ruling. “It sends a message that journalists can be locked up for simply doing their job, for telling the truth and reporting the news.”