Egyptian opposition politician released from jail
The Egyptian authorities have released the opposition politician Ayman Nour after more than three years in prison. Nour was jailed a few months after he challenged Egypt’s president Hosni Mubarak in 2005 elections. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the story from the BBC’s Christian Fraser in Cairo.
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