Egypt - Military court postpones verdict, presses blogger to apologise

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the latest adjournment in detained blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad's retrial on a charge of insulting the military. The Cairo military court had been expected to issue a verdict at today's hearing but instead the judge postponed the verdict until 14 December without explaining why. During today's hearing, Sanad was offered the use of a computer in his cell in Cairo's El-Marg prison so that he could post an apology on the Internet. After he rejected the offer, he (...)

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