Update – February 9, 2015, 9:53pm ET: The family of jailed Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy has begun a Twitter campaign urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to negotiate his release.

Family members are asking supporters to use the hashtag “HarperCallEgypt,” with the hope of pressuring the PM’s Office into immediate action. Mohamed — an award-winning bureau chief for Al-Jazeera — was initially sentenced to 10 years in prison over discredited claims he fabricated footage to undermine Egypt’s national security. Despite recent reports suggesting the 40-year-old was on the verge of release, a second trial is now slated to begin on Thursday.

Although the Prime Minister has not directly commented on the Twitter campaign, a government spokesman says he has “personally”; discussed Mohamed’s case with the highest-ranking members of the Egyptian leadership.

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Any notion that Amal Clooney would “go Hollywood”; after her wedding to George Clooney can be laid to rest with news that the human-rights lawyer will soon head to Egypt to petition for the release of imprisoned Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

As reported by CBC News, Fahmy’s fiancée has confirmed that Amal and Canadian attorney Lorne Waldman, will be heading to Egypt “very soon.”;

“Yes, this is to confirm that Ms. Amal [Clooney] is coming to Egypt very soon, and has requested to meet with President [Abdel Fatah el-Sisi] and Foreign Affairs Minister [Sameh Shoukry] to discuss Mohamed’s release,”; confirmed Marwa Omara in an email to CBC News.

Fahmy, who had dual Canadian-Egyptian citizenship, remains in jail awaiting release and deportation to Canada. He and other journalists were arrested in 2013 for their coverage of the government’s crackdown on protests following military overthrow of then-president Mohammed Morsi. Accused of being members of a terrorist organization and other infractions, and found guilty after a trial that was described by international news organizations as a farce.

Fahmy was sentenced to seven years in prison. A recently passed Egyptian law now allows for foreign prisoners to be transferred to their own countries to serve their sentences, but Fahmy remains behind bars in Egypt.

Clooney and Waldman earlier request to meet with former Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird in last month to discuss Fahmy’s potential deportation to Canada, but were denied a meeting.