Mohamed Fahmy listens to his lawyer, Khaled Abou Bakr, during his
retrial in a courtroom, of Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, June 1,
2015. A verdict is expected overnight for a Canadian journalist on trial in Egypt on widely-denounced terror charges.
As Mohamed Fahmy waits to hear his fate in a Cairo court, he says he’s hoping for the best but bracing for the worst.
Fahmy was the Cairo bureau chief for Qatar-based satellite news broadcaster Al Jazeera English when he and two colleagues were arrested in December, 2013.
They were charged with a slew of offences, including supporting the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, a banned organization affiliated with ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi.
The trio maintained their innocence, but were convicted and sentenced to prison terms.
A successful appeal resulted in a retrial.
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