CAIRO (Web Desk) – An Egyptian curt has ordered the release of detained Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy on bail.
The retrial was ordered by the country’s Court of Cassation last month, overturning a lower court’s verdict that had found them guilty of helping the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Judge Hassan Farid said the next hearing would be on February 23.
A third Al Jazeera journalist, Peter Greste, who was also to be retried, was deported on February 1 under a presidential decree after spending 400 days in prison. He has since returned to his home in Australia.
The three journalists, along with seven colleagues outside the country, were accused of spreading “false news” during their coverage of demonstrations protesting a military toppling of former president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
