Australian Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste is seeking deportation from Egypt for being jailed for more than a year now.
The Australian journalist, along with two other more Al Jazeera correspondents, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohamed have been penalised in jail for seven to ten years for spreading false information to aid "terrorist organisation," according to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
A retrial was ordered by Egypt's High Court on Thursday due to procedural flaws cited, however this was condemned by the Western governments and human rights groups.
Mostafa Nagy, Greste's lawyer, has presented to the prosecution a request to deport his client back to Australia last month, but there has not been a response yet. He has plans to make another request after the court's ruling on Thursday.
According to the November law, foreign suspects or convicts are allowed to go back to their country to be tried or serve their sentence. However, there has been no clear information if this law can be applied to the Al Jazeera journalists.
Meanwhile, Peter Greste's brother, Andrew hopes that his brother could go back home. He told reporters, "Now that Peter is essentially an innocent man, he's not convicted any more, it does allow for some room to move and for him (Sisi) to step in ... and deport him."
The journalists' lawyers stated that retrial could begin within this month and that the judge could have the ruling to post bail to all three journalists on just the first hearing.