CAIRO (AP) – Al-Jazeera’s Australian journalist Peter Greste, speaking a day after his release from prison in Egypt, says his freedom was something of a “rebirth” and that key to his well-being while incarcerated for more than a year was exercising, studying and meditating.
In his first public comments since his release, he told Al-Jazeera English on Monday that he is looking forward to watching a “few sunsets” and the stars, as well as spending time with his family.
He said: “It is those little beautiful moments of life that are really precious.”
Greste, Egyptian-Canadian Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian Baher Mohammed were arrested in December 2013 and later convicted over their coverage of the violent crackdown on Islamist protests that year.
There has been no word on the release of the other two.