After spending 400 days in Egyptian jail, Peter Greste is released
The three -- Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed -- were sentenced after a lengthy retrial.
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab in a televised address to the county warned that those who were responsible for the devastating catastrophe will be held accountable and not go unpunished.
Al-Jazeera colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed were among the pardoned group.
Journalist Peter Greste arrived in Australia and been reunited with his family after 400 days in a Cairo jail.
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