German authorities have released journalist Ahmed Mansour. According to Al-Jazeera he will be released without charges.<br /><br /> مراسل #الجزيرة : السلطات الألمانية تطلق سراح #أحمد_منصور http://t.co/AmZNNLEAp4— Ahmed Mansour (@amansouraja) June 22, 2015<br /> <br /><br /> A Cairo court sentenced Mansour to 15 years in prison in absentia last year on a charge of torturing a lawyer in 2011, which he denies.<br /><br /> The Al-Jazeera reporter was arrested in Berlin on Saturday at Egypt’s request, and had been held in a prison awaiting news on a possible extradition.<br /><br /> His release comes after pressure from the media, as well as protesters who gathered outside the Berlin court from Sunday night.<br /><br /> “He is actually a free journalist who is expressing his opinion and he stands strongly against all dictatorship and fascist system in Egypt,” said Ali Alawady, Chairman of the German-Egyptian Union for Democracy who organised the protest.<br /><br /> Egypt accuses Al-Jazeera of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood which was branded a terror
