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An Egyptian judge ordered the remaining two detained al-Jazeera journalists released on bail yesterday.
However their retrial on terror-related charges continues.
The decision follows the deportation of the reporters’ Australian colleague Peter Greste under a new law allowing Egypt’s president to deport foreign defendants.
Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who recently renounced his Egyptian citizenship, is widely expected to be deported as well.
The third journalist defendant, Baher Mohammed, holds no foreign citizenship and is not eligible for deportation.
He and the remaining defendants — 11 students and others charged with involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood — are being freed without bail.
Judge Hassan Farid ordered the defendants not to leave “their homeland” and to report to their local police station each morning.
The journalists have spent more than a year in prison. They were initially sentenced to at least seven years before a retrial was ordered.
