WINNIPEG — A Canadian journalist who spent almost two years jailed in Egypt, was in Winnipeg this week promoting his new memoir, The Marriott Cell.
Mohamed Fahmy dropped by Global News Morning to talk about his new book, his ordeal in Egypt and how he is working to ensure journalists around the world can ply their trade without fear of ending up in a jail cell.
Fahmy was arrested in 2013 with two Al-Jazeera English colleagues.
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In a case that was widely condemned, he was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial for airing what a court described as “false news” and coverage biased in favour of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood.
Fahmy was granted a pardon by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in September 2015 after spending over 400 days in a maximum security prison.
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He’s now living in Vancouver where he continues to fight suppression of the press through the Fahmy Foundation.