Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy’s long legal Egyptian nightmare may be headed to a conclusion.
Just what that conclusion will be remains anyone’s guess.
A Cairo court is expected to deliver a verdict Thursday for Mr. Fahmy who is being tried on widely-denounced terror charges.
In December 2013, Mr. Fahmy, the acting bureau Al Jazeera English in Cairo, was arrested along with two colleagues, Australian correspondent Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed. They were charged with supporting the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and fabricating television footage to undermine Egypt’s national security.
Human rights organizations around the world condemned the arrests, but in June, 2014 the three were convicted on terror-related charges and sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison..
In February of this year, Mr. Fahmy and Mr. Mohammed were freed on bail to await a retrial with the proviso that they report to police every day. Mr. Greste was deported before proceedings could begin.
Mr. Fahmy gave up his Egyptian citizenship in hopes of being deported as well. That has yet to happen.
He has criticized the Canadian government and Al-Jazeera for not doing enough to help win his freedom.
Mr. Fahmy’s parents moved to Canada from Egypt in 1991 when he was a child. He became a Canadian citizen with them.
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