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President pardons 100 prisoners, including Al Jazeera journalist
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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sits before a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (unseen) at the presidential palace in Cairo August 2, 2015. REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski/Pool
Fahmy, along with three other Al Jazeera journalists, was sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month on charges of operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt.
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Egypt's President Abdel Fatta al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners, including CanadianAl Jazeera TV journalist Mohamed Fahmy, on Wednesday, security sources said.
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The reported pardons came a day before Sisi plans to head to New York for the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
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