release on bail of two al-Jazeera
English journalists, Mohammed
Fahmy and Baher Mohammed
who
were arrested in December 2013
and sentenced to 7 years
imprisonment in June 2014 on
allegations of helping banned
Muslim Brotherhood and spreading
false information about the
Egyptian government.
Mohammed Fahmy, a Canadian/
Egyptian journalist must pay
250,000 Egyptian pounds (around
£21,000) for his freedom while his
colleague, Baher Mohamed, an
Egyptian, will not pay anything.
The two journalist were arrested
and tried alongside their Australian
colleague, Peter Greste, who was
deported back to his home country
Australia on February 1st after the
Egyptian government came up with
a law allowing the deportation of
foreign nationals to their home
countries.
