Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy applies to marry fiancee in prison

Fahmy makes official request after 250 days of incarceration and hopes Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed will be best men

An al-Jazeera English journalist jailed in Egypt has officially applied to marry his fiancee in prison, as Mohamed Fahmy and his two jailed colleagues, whom he hopes will be his best men, marked 250 days behind bars.

An ex-CNN reporter, Fahmy was due to marry his fiancee Marwa Omara this year. But the wedding was postponed after Fahmy, the channel's Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief, was arrested for political reasons late last December, and later jailed for seven years, along with the Australian ex-BBC correspondent, Peter Greste. Their Egyptian producer, Baher Mohamed, was given a decade-long sentence.

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