Jailed Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy renounced his Egyptian citizenship Monday, making him eligible for deportation under a 2014 presidential decree. Fahmy, who held dual Canadian-Egyptian citizenship, was sentenced with two other journalists in 2014 to seven years in jail on charges of supporting a terrorist organization and publishing false news. One of Fahmy's co-defendants, Australian journalist Peter Greste, was deported Sunday after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved releasing him following 400 days in Egyptian prison. Presidential decree no. 140, issued in 2014, stipulates that jailed foreigners can be deported to their home countries to serve their sentences, or to be re-tried there. The situation of the third journalist, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, remains unknown.
