Journalists will hold a candlelight vigil Saturday at 5:00pm in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Cairo to show support for their Egyptian colleague, Shaimaa Adel, who was arrested in Khartoum 13 days ago while covering anti-regime protests.
Sudan's Ambassador to Cairo Kamal Hassan Ali announced on Thursday that Adel, a reporter for the daily Al Watan newspaper, will be released and deported on Monday.
However, Adel's mother, who has been on hunger strike and staging a sit-in outside the Sudanese Embassy in Garden City to demand her daughter's release, insists that she will not leave nor end her hunger strike until her daughter arrives in Cairo.
Shaimaa Adel is the the second Egyptian journalist to be arrested in Sudan while covering anti-regime protests in Khartoum and to go through the process of deportation. The first was Ahram Online and Bloomberg reporter, Salma El-Wardany, who was deported at the end of June.
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