Egypt's Sisi pardons 100 prisoners, including Jazeera journalists

Al Jazeera television journalist Mohamed Fahmy talks to the media before the verdict at a court in Cairo, Egypt, August 29, 2015. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners including three Al Jazeera television journalists, on Wednesday, a day before he plans to head to the annual United Nations summit of world leaders.

The Al Jazeera journalists, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste, were sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt. Greste had already been deported in February.