Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (Arabic: محمد فهمي فاضل, born April 27, 1974) is an award-winning Canadian journalist and author. Fahmy has worked extensively in the Middle East, especially for CNN. He covered Operation Freedom in 2003 by the Los Angeles Times and entered Iraq on the first day of the war. At the end of his one-year mission, he was the author of his first book, Bagdad Bound. More recently, he covered the Arab Spring. In September 2013, he accepted a new position as the Al Jazeera International English Head Office Headquarters in Egypt. On December 29, he and two other journalists from Al Jazeera in English, Peter Greste and Baher Mohammad, were arrested by the Egyptian authorities. On June 23, 2014, Fahmy was convicted by the Cairo Criminal Court and sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment in Tora Prison, a maximum security prison.
On January 1, 2015, the Court of Appeals announced a new trial for Fahmy, Mohammad and Greste. Bail was not allowed.
The President of Egypt, Abdelfatah Al-Sisi, on September 23, 2015, pardoned the Canadian journalist, other reporters and hundreds of opposition activists on the grounds of the Hajj Muslim festival and before going to the Assembly General of the United Nations
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