Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste arrived home in Australia on February 5 saying he had dreamt of returning to his family on each of the 400 days of his detention in Egypt. The 49-year-old Greste also urged Egyptian authorities to free fellow Al-Jazeera television colleagues Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed of Egypt. They were arrested at the height of a diplomatic row between Egypt and Qatar, which owns Al-Jazeera. The broadcaster had criticized the deadly crackdown on Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement following the Islamist leader’s overthrow. Qatar has since moved to repair ties with Egypt, and Al-Jazeera has closed its Arabic-language Egyptian affiliate which backed the Brotherhood.
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