Brisbane: The family of Australian journalist Peter Greste expressed their joy today at his release from an Egyptian jail, but said his two colleagues still in prison would not be forgotten.

Cairo deported the award-winning correspondent for Al-Jazeera English television yesterday after more than 400 days in detention on charges of backing the Muslim Brotherhood. "I'm ecstatic," his mother Lois told a press conference in their hometown Brisbane. "I just can't say how happy I am about it."