Dailymail reports that, three Al-Jazeera English journalists serving lengthy prison sentences in Egypt will face a retrial.
The appeals court in Cairo will now decide the fate of Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, Australian journalist Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohamed.
However, they were not granted bail at the short hearing at the Court of Cassation today. The men have been held since December 2013.
Their arrests came after the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member.
The three journalists did not attend the brief hearing that began around 9am local time, but defence lawyers said they believed a retrial for the men would be held within a month.
Defence attorney Mostafa Nagy said: 'They will not be released until they appear before the new chamber, which will decide whether to release them or not.'
Speaking after the hearing, Lois Greste, Peter Greste's mother, said the verdict was 'not as good as we hoped'.
Adel Fahmy said he had hoped his brother, Mohamed Fahmy, would be freed today.
'I hoped for more today' he added.
-Dailymail
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