The president of Egypt, Abdel Fatta al-Sisi, pardoned 100 prisoners, including Canadian Al Jazeera TV journalist Mohamed Fahmy, on Wednesday, security sources stated.
The reported pardons came a day before Sisi plans to head to New York for the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
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.