Australian journalist Peter Greste says he'll continue to fight to have his conviction quashed after Egypt's president pardoned his Al Jazeera colleagues.
Greste was not named on the list of 100 pardoned prisoners - which included colleagues Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed - after being convicted in absentia last month for collaborating with a terrorist organisation.
Fahmy and Mohamed were released from prison within hours of their pardon being announced on Wednesday.
"(A pardon) would mean all the difference in the world," Greste told ABC radio on Thursday.
"I still have, as far as I know, a conviction hanging over my head and a criminal record as a convicted terrorist.
"If we're going to undo that injustice, if we're going to do this right, then he (Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi) needs to follow through, so that everyone who was convicted in this case ... has their convictions quashed."
The pardons came a day before President Sisi was due to head to New York to deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly.
Greste is also travelling to the General Assembly to push for his own and other journalists' freedom.
He said he didn't believe that Fahmy and Mohamed had been pardoned when he found out on the set of an ABC television show on Wednesday night.
"I really wasn't quite prepared to starting dancing across the set, although, I wanted to ... I was so desperate for that to be true, but I wasn't quite convinced it really was at that moment," Greste said.
"We've had so many false starts, so many moments throughout this whole saga when we thought we had a breakthrough only to have it snatched away."
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