Freed Al Jazeera journalist leaves Egypt

A Canadian journalist with Al Jazeera television who was freed from an Egyptian jail last month after being granted a presidential pardon for broadcasting "false" news, has confirmed he is flying home.

"Canadian Ambassador Troy (Lulashnyk) kindly escorted me to the gate at Cairo airport. A glorious end to our battle for freedom!" Mohamed Fahmy tweeted on Tuesday.

An airport security official confirmed that Fahmy had boarded a flight bound for London.

Fahmy, along with colleagues Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste, who was deported at the beginning of the year, were convicted in an August retrial of fabricating "false" news in support of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

They were sentenced to three years.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned Fahmy, Mohamed and 100 other prisoners last month.