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Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste learned his colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohammed Fahmy had been pardoned by Egypt during filming for the Chaser’s Media Circus last night.
The trio had been sentenced to three years in jail during a retrial last month for allegedly fabricating “false” news in support of the black-listed Muslim Brotherhood movement, which the army removed from power in 2013.
Greste was also convicted in the retrial, although he had been earlier deported through a presidential decree. Technically he remains a convicted criminal in Egypt.
