Posted on 02/01/2015 7:04:49 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Egypt's top court had in January ordered a retrial of the three men.
But an Egyptian official told Agence France-Presse news agency on Sunday: "There is a presidential decision to deport Peter Greste to Australia."
Another official told Associated Press the release had been co-ordinated with the Australian embassy in Cairo.
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Cairo says Egyptian law requires those deported under these circumstances to either finish their sentence in their home country or be put on trial again there, and it is unclear whether the Australian authorities have agreed to that.
Al-Jazeera has demanded the release of its journalists ever since they were arrested and there has been a major international campaign to try to secure their release.
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He’s one of the Al-Jazeera hacks and propagandists who advocated Islamofascism for Egypt, and continue to do so.
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