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Peter Greste returns home to Australia
After a harrowing 400 days in an Egyptian cell, Peter Greste is back in Australia. These are the images of his emotional Brisbane home coming. The award winning journalist who was sentenced in June last year to 7 years in prison was released and deported from Egypt by presidential decree on Monday. Greste says he is "ecstatic" to be back in Australia and expressed concern for his two Al Jazeera colleagues still imprisoned Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed.
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Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste celebrates upon his arrival at Brisbane's international airport in the early hours of Thursday February 5, 2015Credit:AFP
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Greste embraces a friend on his arrival at Brisbane's international airport.Credit:AFP
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Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste punches the air on his arrival.Credit:Patrick Hamilton/AFP
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Peter Greste greets his supporters and the media after landing back in Australia at Brisbane Airport.Credit:Getty Images
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Australian journalist Peter Greste reacts upon his return home at Brisbane.Credit:Reuters
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Peter Greste greets his supporters and the media after landing back in Australia at Brisbane Airport.Credit:AP
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Australian journalist Peter Greste (C) receives a kiss from his mother Lois (L) as he hugs his father Juris upon his return home at Brisbane International Airport, early February 5, 2015. Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist freed after more than a year in an Egyptian prison, arrived back in his Australian homeland on Thursday and called for the release of two colleagues still in custody. Greste was released on Sunday after 400 days in a Cairo jail and had been in Cyprus since. He had been sentenced to seven years on charges that included aiding a terrorist group in a case that had attracted widespread attention and criticism of Egypt's leadership and judiciary. REUTERS/Nathan Richter (AUSTRALIA - Tags: MEDIA)Credit:STRINGER/AUSTRALIA
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Peter Greste is kissed by his mother Lois and father Juris.Credit:AFP
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Greste with his mother Lois and father Juris.Credit:AFP
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Greste is greeted by well-wishers.Credit:AFP
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Greste is greeted by well-wishers.Credit:AFP
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Greste is greeted by well-wishers.Credit:AFP
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Greste greets his supportes.Credit:Robert Shakespeare/Getty Images
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Greste gets a kiss from his mother Lois and father Juris.Credit:Reuters
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Peter Greste greets his supporters and the media after landing back in Australia at Brisbane Airport.Credit:Getty Images
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Peter Greste greets his supporters and the media after landing back in Australia at Brisbane Airport.Credit:Getty Images
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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 05: Australian journalist Peter Greste (centre), his brother Mike (right) and Andrew (left) and parents Juris and Lois, pose for a photo during a press conference on February 5, 2015 in Brisbane, Australia. Peter Greste returned to Australia in the early hours of this morning after spending 400 days in a Cairo prison after he was arrested in December 2013 and charged with defaming Egypt and having links with the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood. (Photo by Glenn Hunt/Getty Images)Credit:Glenn Hunt
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Australian journalist Peter Greste and parents Juris and Lois, at a press conference on February 5, 2015 in Brisbane, Australia.Credit:Glenn Hunt/Getty Images
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An emotional Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste speaks during a press conference in Brisbane.Credit:AFP
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Peter Greste at a press conference in Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. Credit:Tertius Pickard