CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prosecutor on Thursday ordered the release of a news producer for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network held in pretrial detention for more than two years, his lawyer and a judicial source said.
Mahmoud Hussain, who was detained in 2016, was being held on charges of spreading false news, joining a banned group and receiving foreign funds, his lawyer Taher Abou al-Nasr said.
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