Egypt to free UK Islamic fundamentalists
Egypt has agreed to release three British Islamic fundamentalists after they spent nearly three years in prison for membership in a banned religious party, a prison official said today.
Ian Malcolm Nisbett, Maajid Nawaz and Reza Pankhurst were each sentenced to five years' imprisonment by an emergency state security court in March 2003. The prison official spoke on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorised to discuss the issue with the press.
