2 Al-Jazeera journalists walk free in Egypt

February 14, 2015 03:13

Two Al-Jazeera journalists walked free from an Egyptian prison today and were reunited with loved ones after more than a year behind bars on terror-related charges that drew international criticism from human rights and media groups.

Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed are free pending their retrial, scheduled for Feb 23. A third colleague, Peter Greste, was released two weeks ago and deported to his home country of Australia.

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