According to the news site Massai Ahram, Egypt’s Shura Council announced in a statement that it has agreed to begin taking steps to release convicts who have been imprisoned in Egyptian prisons for years from the nations two most notorious terrorist organizations, Islamic Jihad and Al Gama”a Al Islamiya””including several held under tight security and on death row by presidential decree for committing especially heinous acts of terror in Egypt.
According to Tarek al-Zomor, the formal speaker of the Islamic party and a member of Parliament’s Shura Council, they have already begun taking steps to release 40 prisoners from Islamic Jihad and Al Gama”a Al Islamiya. Zomor refused to release their names until they have all been released onto the streets of Egypt.