TORONTO – A Canadian journalist who was released from prison in Egypt last month has returned home.
Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera journalist detained on terror-related charges, told The Associated Press that he arrived in Toronto on Sunday.
He says he’d long imagined in prison the moment he would return.
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His arrival ends his nearly two-year ordeal in a case that raised questions about Egypt’s commitment to free speech.
Fahmy was arrested in 2013 with two Al-Jazeera English colleagues. He was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial this year for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The case was widely condemned. He and his Egyptian co-defendant received a presidential pardon last month. The other colleague was previously released.
Fahmy will be speaking publicly in Canada for the first time at Ryerson University on Tuesday at 11 a.m.
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