Saturday's freeing of journalist Hisham Fouad and anthropology researcher Ahmed Samir came a day after Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi pardoned them, along with five others, according to state-run media.
cairo - Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has pardoned eight people sentenced to prison, including a journalist and a researcher, a member of the
Egypt released seven people on Saturday, including a journalist and a researcher serving prison sentences on terror-related charges, the latest steps by the government to reach out to the opposition amid a grinding economic crisis.