Egyptian authorities have announced deportation of three television crew members of the Qatar-based English news broadcaster Al-Jazeera, who were detained for nearly a week for working illegally.
Al-Jazeera English correspondent Wayne Hay, cameraman Adil Bradlow and producer Russ Finn, who were detained since Tuesday, had left Cairo for London on Sunday, Politico reports.
An official, on condition of anonymity, told that Al-Jazeera crew members were detained for working in Egypt without a permit to use satellite transmitters.
Earlier last week, Egypt's interim government had called Al-Jazeera's local Arabic language channel a threat to national security and had ordered it to close down.