January 01, 2015 01:34 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 07:09 pm IST - CAIRO
In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, Al-Jazeera English producer Baher Mohamed, left, Canadian-Egyptian acting Cairo bureau chief Mohammed Fahmy, center, and correspondent Peter Greste, right, appear in court along with several other defendants during their trial on terror charges.
An appeals court in Egypt has ordered a retrial in the case of three imprisoned Al-Jazeera English journalists.
The decision on Thursday came after a hearing at Egypt’s Court of Cassation that lasted only a few minutes.
Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohammed all have been held since their arrest December 2013. Their arrests came after the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsy, a Muslim Brotherhood member.
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