Journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed will be retried on 12 February,
the authorities have announced. Both men are prisoners of conscience.
Peter Greste was deported to Cyprus on 1 February and has since been
reunited with his family in Australia. (Photo of Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, and Peter Greste)
The authorities told Mohamed Fahmy ahead of his appeal hearing on 1 January
that giving up his Egyptian citizenship would be the “only way out” for
him, his family announced. The journalist is understood to have given
up his citizenship soon after this. Mohamed Fahmy had hoped that he
would subsequently be deported to Canada but is still detained, awaiting
a retrial.
The
authorities have not given any indication that they will free Baher
Mohamed. His family have expressed concern to Amnesty International
about his continued imprisonment, saying that he was a journalist
detained for doing his job.
Also to be retried are a separate group of men jailed in the same case: Sohaib
Saad Mohamed Mohamed, Khaled Mohamed Abdulraouf Mohamed, Shadi Abdul
Hameed Abdul Azeem Ibrahim and Khalid Abdulrahman Mahmoud Ahmed
Abdulwahab. The Prosecution did not present any evidence proving
that they had been involved in committing terrorism-related offenses,
during the trial last year.From Amnesty International UK...
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