Al Jazeera has announced the release of its reporters, Ahmed Mansour, held at the Berlin airport in Germany has been released.
Ahmed Mansour, who works for the network’s Arabic-language service, was detained on Saturday as he tried to board a flight from Berlin to Qatar.
It is reported that a court in Cairo, Egypt’s capital, sentenced him to 15 years in prison in absentia last year on torture charges.
Earlier, the German government had said that it could veto an extradition decision from the court.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Martin Schaefer, told a news conference that Germany has repeatedly questioned the rule of law in Egypt.
“Against this background, you will surely understand that there are doubts in the Mansour case.
“I don’t think one can say this loudly enough: Of course, nobody will be extradited from Germany who risks being sentenced to death abroad”, he said.
According to Al Jazeera, Saad Djebbar, one of Mansour’s lawyer, said that while his client was ‘very happy’ about the court’s decision, he was also ‘very sad’ that the Al Jazeera Journalist was detained in the first place.
Another lawyer, Patrick Teubner, said that with the court decision, Mansour could now leave Germany.
Dozens of supporters of Mansour had protested in front of the Berlin court building where he was held.
Mr Mansour, along with two Muslim Brotherhood members and an Islamic preacher, were accused of taking part in the torture of a lawyer in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011, during protests against then President Hosni Mubarak.
