Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi
CBS revealed that after the interview was filmed, the Egyptian ambassador contacted its "60 Minutes" team and warned that it could not be aired.
The president's first trip abroad also appears to have sparked crackdowns in Bahrain and Egypt.
The chants of the 2011 revolution are back on the streets of Cairo.
While activists welcome his release, Mahmoud Hussein is just one of many political prisoners often jailed without cause for years.
