Al-Jazeera Cairo bureau chief granted bail

Al-Jazeera’s Cairo bureau chief has been released on bail of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (€1,400) after being charged with propagating false news, the TV station said tonight.

“I’m fine but I have had hardly any sleep for the past 40 hours,” Hussein Abdel Ghani told viewers in a phone interview with an Al-Jazeera anchorwoman in Qatar.