The supreme body of the Egyptian Justice annulled Thursday sentences of imprisonment brought against three journalists of the pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera and ordered a new trial.
Australia's Peter Greste, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, who has dual Canadian and Egyptian nationality, serving sentences of seven to ten years in prison for firm support to a terrorist organization - in this case the Muslim Brotherhood, now outlawed - and publishing false news about Egypt.
Their trial was widely criticized abroad due to lack of evidence and disorderly way it was conducted.
The rumored for some time that President Abdel Fattah al Sissi could decide to pardon or expel the three men, who were arrested in December 2013.
Mostafa Nagy, their lawyer, said he expected that three journalists are held in prison until their new trial: "They will not be released before appearing before a new court, which will decide whether or not to release" .
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