Prison: Fahmy and Egyptian Prison

prison: Eleven months after his release from an Egyptian prison on bogus charges, journalist Mohamed Fahmy has become a champion for freedom of expression, working with Amnesty International and Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression, whose activism helped free him, according to Rabble. Fahmy was in and out of Egyptian prison for more than 400 days -- convicted, released, re-tried, convicted again, and then pardoned -- triggering a storm of protest internationally, but particularly in Canada. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. He and his wife started the Fahmy Foundation for Free Press "during the six months I was out on bail," he said. "I was getting so much attention while I was in prison, and other prisoners of conscience were not." Mohamed Fahmy was a boy when his family moved to Canada from the Egypt/Kuwait area. "My dad wanted to live somewhere there was press freedom," he said. "That why we came." He grew up in Toronto and attended college there, before leaving to work as a journalist in the Middle East. "My first day on the job as a journalist was the first day of the Iraq war," he said, in 2003, when he worked for the Los Angeles Times. "I went in with the troops." The locals were excited to get rid of Saddam Hussein, he said, until reality sunk in. "I saw the mistakes the U.S. administration made too," he said. "Like disbanding the Iraq army. ISIS came out of those soldiers." After working with CNN in Iraq for a year, Fahmy arrived in Egypt in early 2011, just in time for the Arab Spring. Many of those fighters joined the opposition. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.