{"id":16504,"date":"2011-12-14T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:53:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T16:53:06","slug":"al-jazeera-egyptian-blogger-gets-two-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=16504","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera: Egyptian blogger gets two years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maikel Nabil, the first blogger put on trial by the interim leadership, sentenced on charges of insulting military.
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Nabil has been on hunger strike since August<\/p><\/div>An Egyptian military court has sentenced a blogger who criticised the army to two years in prison, after he went on a hunger strike to protest an initial three-year sentence.<\/p>\n

“In the name of the people, Maikel Nabil has been sentenced and punished with two years in prison and fined 200 pounds ($33),” the court said after a retrial on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Nabil, 26, who had criticised the ruling military on his blog and campaigned against conscription, had been handed a three-year sentence in April in a widely criticised trial.<\/p>\n

This followed his publication of a blog entry called “The people and the army were never hand in hand”.<\/p>\n

On his blog, Nabil said the army had used violence against protesters. He claimed it had also used Cairo’s Egyptian Museum as a place to torture civilians, and that the military forces detained women protesters to take virginity tests.<\/p>\n

He was at the time found guilty of “insulting the military” and of publishing false news.<\/p>\n

Nabil’s was the first trial of a blogger by a military court since the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed control after President Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11 following 18 straight days of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

Nabil has been on hunger strike since August.<\/p>\n

His brother Mark told the AFP news agency that Nabil “will escalate his hunger strike. He was drinking juice and milk, but now will only drink water”.<\/p>\n

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