A Cairo criminal court ordered on Tuesday the release of prominent Jihadist Mohamed El-Zawahri on parole pending trial.
According to Al-Zawahri'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,he brother of current Al-Qaeda leader Ayman El-Zawahri, was arrested in August 2013 on charges of membership of a terrorist organisation.
In October 2015, Al-Zawahri was acquitted of operating a terrorist organisation in what was dubbed the "Al-Zawahri 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-Zawahri was sentenced to death in absentia for a handful of terrorist attacks in Egypt.
In June 2011, a military court accepted Al-Zawahri's appeal against the death verdict; the case was closed and the 63 years old Jihadist was released.
