An Egyptian court has freed Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed on bail.

A judge in Cairo ordered that the pair should be released at the start of their retrial on charges of spreading lies.

Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed are accused of helping a terrorist organisation.

Mr Fahmy's fiancee cheered "long live justice" as the decision to grant bail was announced.

Their colleague, Peter Greste, was released last week and is now back home in Australia.

He was freed under a decree which authorised the country's leader to approve the deportation of foreign prisoners.

The journalists' plight since being detained in December 2013 has attracted worldwide attention and condemnation.