Published May 21, 2015
Australia' prime minister has thanked the Egyptian president for his help in releasing an Australian reporter from prison and expressed hope that two Al-Jazeera colleagues would also be freed soon.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott 's office said in a statement Wednesday that he spoke to President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi by telephone on Tuesday night for the first time since Australian Al-Jazeera reporter Peter Greste was released from an Egyptian prison at the weekend.
It said: "The prime minister thanked President el-Sisi for his effort to bring Peter Greste's imprisonment to an end."
Greste, Fahmy, a dual Egyptian-Canadian citizen, and Egyptian Baher Mohammed were arrested in Cairo in December 2013 and later convicted over their coverage of the violent crackdown on Islamist protests that year.
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