Amnesty International called on Egypt Monday to release the remaining two Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, in the wake of journalist Peter Greste's release from prison. The organization urged Egypt for immediate and unconditional release of the two journalists. Amnesty International's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said that the organization welcomes the release and deportation of Greste after he spent more than a year in prison. Sahraoui added that despite Greste's release, the world must not forget Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy who remain in prison. "It has become increasingly clear that the journalists have been used as political pawns in a dispute between the authorities of Egypt and the Qatar government, which owns the Al Jazeera network", Sahraoui says. Last year, Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Peter Greste and two other Al-Jazeera Journalists, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy to seven years in prison for belonging to a terrorist organization, disturbing the public peace, and publishing false news in a case that has been widely derided around the world. Yesterday, Egypt released and deported Peter Greste, who has been jailed in Egypt to Cyprus after the decision of President Abd Al-Fattah Al-Sisi that came under the presidential decree no. 140 in 2014, which stipulates that jailed foreigners are to be deported to spend their sentences in their own countries or to be retried there.
