Two jailed journalists seek deportation after court orders their retrial

Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country’s highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped.

Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were sentenced in June to seven to 10 years in jail for spreading lies to help a “terrorist organization”— a reference to Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt’s high court ordered their retrial on Thursday, citing procedural flaws in the original trial, which was condemned by human rights groups and Western governments.