WATCH: Vassy Kapelos reports on the still-evolving situation for jailed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.
CAIRO – The fiancee of an Egyptian-Canadian journalist imprisoned for more than a year in Cairo says he has relinquished his Egyptian citizenship.
She says Egyptian authorities essentially made freedom for Mohamed Fahmy conditional on doing so.
Marwa Omara tells The Canadian Press that it was a very difficult decision for him because Fahmy is a “proud Egyptian who comes from a family of military servicemen.”
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She says authorities have told him he can return as a tourist.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Monday that Fahmy’s release was “imminent,” but declined to provide any more details.
Fahmy and two Al Jazeera colleagues – Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohamed – were arrested in December 2013 and later convicted of terror charges.
Greste was freed on Sunday.
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