Al-Masry Al-Youm
"In his first public appearance after being pardoned from his two-year prison sentence, blogger Maikel Nabil said he was drugged before his interrogation and forced to watch other prisoners being tortured during his 302 days in jail.
Nabil, the first prisoner to be incarcerated for his opinions since the 25 January revolution, was sentenced to two years in prison by a military court on 14 December on charges of propagating false information and insulting the military institution on his blog.
Nabil's charges were based mainly on a blog post that he wrote on 7 March titled “The army and the people were never one hand,” in which he accused military forces of being implicated in killing protesters during the 18-day uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.....
During his interrogation, Nabil was asked about opinions he wrote on his blog, including whether he wrote “down with military rule,” and if he voted "no" in the constitutional referendum held last March.
The referendum was over a series of constitutional amendments prepared by a committee commissioned by the SCAF. It has been widely perceived that a "yes" vote meant accepting SCAF's take on the transition.
“I found myself tried for my opinions,” said Nabil....
Nabil spent four months on a hunger strike to protest his unfair trial and prison sentence.....
....... Thus, the court appointed him a lawyer who requested that Nabil be examined for his psychological state in the Abbasseya Mental Hospital.
The move was condemned by activists and doctors at the hospital, who released a statement accusing the military of using old-regime tactics to crackdown on dissidents.
Maikel’s father Nabil Sanad, who was present at the conference, said “I am not happy that my son was pardoned. They must drop his charges completely. He didn’t do anything wrong and he was discriminated against.”
Nabil warned revolutionaries about the military forces’ attempts to divide them.
“Our enemy wants to divide us and we, the revolutionaries, have to remain one hand in order to bring down the dictatorship and the military regime,” said Nabil. “They want to break our unity in order to make the revolution fail. I am here to expose what they try to hide from people.”
Nabil vowed to complete his struggle against military rule and the crackdown on free speech."
"In his first public appearance after being pardoned from his two-year prison sentence, blogger Maikel Nabil said he was drugged before his interrogation and forced to watch other prisoners being tortured during his 302 days in jail.
Nabil, the first prisoner to be incarcerated for his opinions since the 25 January revolution, was sentenced to two years in prison by a military court on 14 December on charges of propagating false information and insulting the military institution on his blog.
Nabil's charges were based mainly on a blog post that he wrote on 7 March titled “The army and the people were never one hand,” in which he accused military forces of being implicated in killing protesters during the 18-day uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.....
During his interrogation, Nabil was asked about opinions he wrote on his blog, including whether he wrote “down with military rule,” and if he voted "no" in the constitutional referendum held last March.
The referendum was over a series of constitutional amendments prepared by a committee commissioned by the SCAF. It has been widely perceived that a "yes" vote meant accepting SCAF's take on the transition.
“I found myself tried for my opinions,” said Nabil....
Nabil spent four months on a hunger strike to protest his unfair trial and prison sentence.....
....... Thus, the court appointed him a lawyer who requested that Nabil be examined for his psychological state in the Abbasseya Mental Hospital.
The move was condemned by activists and doctors at the hospital, who released a statement accusing the military of using old-regime tactics to crackdown on dissidents.
Maikel’s father Nabil Sanad, who was present at the conference, said “I am not happy that my son was pardoned. They must drop his charges completely. He didn’t do anything wrong and he was discriminated against.”
Nabil warned revolutionaries about the military forces’ attempts to divide them.
“Our enemy wants to divide us and we, the revolutionaries, have to remain one hand in order to bring down the dictatorship and the military regime,” said Nabil. “They want to break our unity in order to make the revolution fail. I am here to expose what they try to hide from people.”
Nabil vowed to complete his struggle against military rule and the crackdown on free speech."
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