Maikel Nabil, the first blogger put on trial by the interim leadership, sentenced on charges of insulting military.
Last Modified: 14 Dec 2011 14:33
Nabil has been on hunger strike since August
“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.
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.
This followed his publication of a blog entry called “The people and the army were never hand in hand”.
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.
He was at the time found guilty of “insulting the military” and of publishing false news.
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.
Nabil has been on hunger strike since August.
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”.
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