A New Zealand journalist has been freed from an Egyptian jail after being detained for five days without charge.
Al Jazeera correspondent Wayne Hay, formerly a TVNZ reporter and presenter, was arrested with three colleagues while covering events in Cairo on Tuesday.
Mr Hay is originally from Tauranga and was a student at Tauranga Boys' College.
Their arrests followed the detainment of correspondent Abdullah al-Shami, who was arrested after the raid of the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya on August 14, along with Mohamed Badr, a cameraman for Al Jazeera's Arabic channel Mubasher Misr, who has been held for more than a month.
The network called for Egyptian authorities to release its staff unconditionally along with their belongings and equipment.