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YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 23, ARMENPRESS. A Cairo criminal court ordered on February 23 the release of prominentJihadist Mohamed El-Zawahiri on parole, “Armenpress” reports.
According to Al-Zawahiri’s lawyer Adel Moawad, his client should be released soon since he is not detained in any other case. However, the prosecution has the right to appeal the court decission,
El-Zawahiri, the brother of current Al-Qaeda leader Ayman El-Zawahiri,was arrested in August 2013 on charges of membership of a terrorist organisation.
In October 2015, Al-Zawahiri was acquitted ofoperating a terrorist organisation in what was dubbed the “Al-Zawahiri cell” trial, which involved 17 other defendants, 10 of whom were sentenced to death for running a terrorist organisation connected to Al-Qaeda.
In 1999, Mohamed Al-Zawahiri was sentenced to death in absentia for a handful of terrorist attacks in Egypt.
In June 2011, a military court accepted Al-Zawahiri’s appeal against the death verdict; the case was closed and the 63 years old Jihadist was released.