An Egyptian court ordered the release of two jailed Al-Jazeera journalists Thursday pending retrial, after they spent more than 400 days in prison in a case that sparked worldwide outrage. Mohamed Fahmy, who is Canadian and whose family hoped he would be deported, must pay 250,000 Egyptian pounds ($33,000) bail while his colleague, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, was freed on his own recognisance along with other defendants. Fahmy and Mohamed appeared in white prison uniforms before the Cairo court, after Australian colleague Peter Greste was deported home earlier this month. The three were accused of supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and originally jailed for between seven and 10 years each.
02-14-2015, 09:34 AM
Jazeera journalists freed on first day of Egypt retrial
An Egyptian court ordered the release of two jailed Al-Jazeera journalists Thursday pending retrial, after they spent more than 400 days in prison in a case that sparked worldwide outrage. Mohamed Fahmy, who is Canadian and whose family hoped he would be deported, must pay 250,000 Egyptian pounds ($33,000) bail while his colleague, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, was freed on his own recognisance along with other defendants. Fahmy and Mohamed appeared in white prison uniforms before the Cairo court, after Australian colleague Peter Greste was deported home earlier this month. The three were accused of supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood and originally jailed for between seven and 10 years each.
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