2013–15 detention of Al Jazeera journalists by Egypt

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sept.23 pardoned the jailed Canadian journalist with Al-Jazeera television, Mohamed Fahmy, and his colleague Baher Mohamed, along with 100 prisoners, the presidency and official media reported.

Many western countries voiced swift disapproval after an Egyptian court on Aug. 29 handed down three-year prison sentences to three Al-Jazeera reporters whom they have long demanded be released.

An Egyptian court sentenced three Al-Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison on Aug.29 for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has stirred an international outcry. 

An Egyptian court on August 2 postponed for a second time its verdict in the retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists, rescheduling it for August 29 in a move the defendants called an insult.

An Egyptian court postponed on July 30 its verdict in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood, in a case that has sparked a global outcry.

Egypt summoned the US ambassador in Cairo to show displeasure at Muslim Brotherhood figures coming to Washington for a private conference, sources familiar with the matter said on June 8.

One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said US officials did not intend to meet the group although they had met some Brotherhood figures that came to Washington in January. 

Two Al-Jazeera journalists were freed feb. 13 from an Egyptian prison pending retrial, their families said, after spending more than a year in jail in a case that provoked global uproar.
      
A Cairo court on Feb. 12 ordered the release of Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian, who are facing retrial on charges of supporting the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood.

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.
      

An Egyptian court will retry Al-Jazeera journalists from February 12, a judicial official said Feb. 8, after an Australian reporter was deported and a Canadian awaits his own deportation.
      

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.