{"id":41454,"date":"2015-02-08T18:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T10:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41454"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:37:43","slug":"lawyer-amal-clooney-wants-to-meet-egyptian-president-press-for-fahmy-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/08\/lawyer-amal-clooney-wants-to-meet-egyptian-president-press-for-fahmy-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Amal Clooney wants to meet Egyptian president, press for Fahmy release"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41496\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_223842064.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_223842064-e1423397402662.jpg\" alt=\"Lawyer Amal Clooney (Kostas Koutsaftikis \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_223842064-e1423397402662.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/shutterstock_223842064-e1423397402662-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawyer Amal Clooney (Kostas Koutsaftikis \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawyer Amal Clooney has requested a meeting with Egypt&#8217;s president to press for the release of Al-Jezeera journalist and Canadian citizen Mohamed Fahmy.<\/p>\n<p>Clooney makes the request in a letter addressed to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>Fahmy and two Al Jazeera colleagues &#8212; Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohamed &#8212; were arrested in December 2013 and convicted of terror charges in a trial that has been called a sham.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis soft tabs online <a href=\"https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/cialis-soft-tabs.html\">https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/cialis-soft-tabs.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> They were sentenced to between seven and 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Greste was released and deported to Australia a week ago and Fahmy has recently relinquished his Egyptian citizenship, which his family said was a precondition for his release.<\/p>\n<p>But Clooney notes Fahmy remains in a Cairo prison with no word on when he might be released as well.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lipitor online <a href=\"https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/lipitor.html\">https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/lipitor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Clooney says she plans to visit Fahmy soon, and wants to meet with the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since Mr Greste&#8217;s release, Mr. Fahmy&#8217;s Egyptian counsel has been informed by Egyptian government officials that his release was to follow, and that it was imminent,&#8221; Clooney wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since this has not yet occurred, however, I now write to request a meeting with you, or your designated officials, as soon as possible to discuss the status of the case.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy doxycycline online <a href=\"https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/doxycycline.html\">https:\/\/gmaxind.com\/wordpress2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/svg\/doxycycline.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Amal Clooney has requested a meeting with Egypt&#8217;s president to press for the release of Al-Jezeera journalist and Canadian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news-w","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286785,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41454\/revisions\/286785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}