Australian prime minister tells Egyptian president he hopes Al-Jazeera reporters will be freed

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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