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Jun. 16, 2014 | 08:22 PM (Last updated: June 16, 2014 | 08:31 PM)

Egypt prosecutor orders hunger-striking Jazeera journalist freed

File - In this Thursday, May 15, 2014, from left, Mohammed Fahmy, Canadian-Egyptian acting bureau chief of Al-Jazeera, Australian correspondent Peter Greste, and Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed appear in a defendant's cage along with several other defendants during their trial on terror charges at a courtroom in Cairo.(AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam)

Agence France Presse

CAIRO: Egypt's prosecutor general on Monday ordered the release of Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy, who has been on hunger strike for nearly five months, the official MENA news agency reported.

Elshamy, who works for the main Arabic-language channel of the Qatar-based network, was arrested on August 14 last year when police dispersed protest camps in Cairo set up by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

MENA did not specify when he would actually be freed.

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