A "tremendously relieved" Mohamed Fahmy now has his new Canadian passport.
The Canadian journalist said Wednesday that the ambassador to Egypt gave him the passport before his retrial on terror-related charges continued Wednesday in Cairo.
#Canada journalist @MFFahmy11 has his passport, finally. Temp white one while perm one is processed in Ottawa #CBC http://ift.tt/1bujLdx
— @sasapetricic
Fahmy was issued a temporary passport while the permanent document is being processed in Ottawa.
Fahmy's original passport was seized when he was arrested along with two colleagues from Al-Jazeera's English network on terror-related charges in Cairo in 2013. The three journalists were convicted in 2014 and sent to prison.
Fahmy, who was a dual citizen, renounced his Egyptian citizenship earlier this year and was released from prison, pending a retrial ordered by a judicial appeal body. Of Fahmy's two colleagues, one is an Australian, who was deported. The other is Egyptian.
The Canadian government had initially refused to issue a new passport to Fahmy, citing his bail conditions.
After some court proceedings on Wednesday, Fahmy's retrial was adjourned until April 28.
