Mohamed Fahmy

Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste said Feb. 3 he was due to leave Greek Cyprus shortly and fly home to Australia following his release from an Egyptian jail.
      
In his first posts on his official Twitter account after more than 400 days in jail, Greste thanked his supporters and said he would soon be heading to see his family in his native Australia.
      

Australian journalist Peter Greste will keep fighting to free his colleagues still jailed in Egypt, his family said Monday, after he was released following more than 400 days in prison on charges of backing the Muslim Brotherhood.
      

Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia Feb. 1 after serving 400 days in a Cairo prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said. 

Canadian foreign minister John Baird said he had a "fruitful" meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Thursday to seek the release of a Canadian journalist imprisoned with two Al-Jazeera colleagues.
      
But Baird played down expectations that his visit could see Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy freed imminently after more than a year in jail.
      

Egypt disputed Jan. 4 a claim by British human rights lawyer Amal Clooney that she had been warned she risked arrest last year if she released a report in Cairo critical of the judiciary.

Three Al-Jazeera journalists faced Jan. 2 the prospect of at least several more weeks in prison after Egypt's top court granted them a retrial in a case that sparked international uproar.
      

Egypt's top court Thursday ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera reporters whose imprisonment on charges of  aiding the Muslim Brotherhood triggered global outrage, but kept them in custody pending a new hearing.
      

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said July 6 he "wished" three jailed al-Jazeera journalists including an Australian had not been put on trial, conceding the case had been damaging, a newspaper reported.

The International Press Institute (IPI) Board has called on Egypt’s president to immediately grant a full presidential pardon to all journalists convicted in the country in connection with their work.