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Egypt has ordered the release of an Al Jazeera journalist held in pretrial detention, the Qatar-based network confirmed, as President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi concluded his trip to Doha on Wednesday. The decision will see Al Jazeera Mubasher’s Ahmed al-Najdi, who has been detained since August 2020, freed from prison, his lawyer Samir al-Bagoury said. The fate of his detained colleagues, Hisham Abdel Aziz, Bahauddin Ibrahim and Rabie el-Sheikh, remains unclear, though Al Jazeera confirmed they are being held in detention “without trial or charge”. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says Az…