Egypt’s most high profile prisoner is pardoned
by editors@theworld.org (Matthew Bell) from The World: Latest Stories on (#707JY)
In Egypt today, the country's most prominent political prisoner has received a presidential pardon. Alaa Abd el-Fattah has spent most of the past 12 years behind bars. He became a leading voice for democratic change in Egypt during the Arab Spring that began in 2011. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler have the details.