Mohamed Fahmy, released from Egyptian prison last month, now back in Canada
Posted October 12, 2015 1:10 pm.
Last Updated October 12, 2015 1:16 pm.
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TORONTO (NEWS 1130) – A Canadian journalist who was released from prison in Egypt last month has returned home.
Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera journalist detained on terror-related charges, arrived in Toronto on Sunday. He says he’d long imagined in prison the moment he would return.
His arrival ends his nearly two-year ordeal in a case that raised questions about Egypt’s commitment to free speech.
Fahmy was arrested in 2013 with two Al-Jazeera English colleagues. He was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial this year for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The case was widely condemned. He and his Egyptian co-defendant received a presidential pardon last month. The other colleague was previously released.Mohamed Fahmy pardoned by Egyptian president