Egypt Frees One Of Three Jailed Al Jazeera Journalists

Egypt Frees One Of Three Jailed Al Jazeera Journalists



WNO-Al Jazeera columnist Peter Greste is being discharged and expelled from Egypt.

The Associated Press is reporting that Greste's discharge takes after a presidential "support" and was facilitated with the Australian Embassy in Cairo. The AP says Greste is headed to the Cairo airplane terminal to leave the nation.

Greste and two other Al Jazeera columnists, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, were confined in December 2013 and detained in June of a year ago. The three men were sentenced on terrorism charges and blamed for helping or being parts of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The destinies of Fahmy Mohamed, still in jail, are obscure.

NPR's Leila Fadel reports that Fahmy has likewise sought extradition, under another law that permits nonnatives blamed or sentenced for a wrongdoing in Egypt to be expelled to their nations of origin and be attempted there, with the approbation of the president. Yet Mohamed, an Egyptian, can't be discharged under that law and will probably go on trial once more.

Al Jazeera discharged an announcement adulating the discharge yet saying it is "insufficient." The system says every one of the three of its columnists must be absolved.

"We won't rest until Baher and Mohamed additionally recover their flexibility. The Egyptian powers have it in their energy to complete this legitimately today, and that is precisely what they must do," Mostefa Souag, acting executive general of the Al Jazeera Media Network, said in an announcement.


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