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Egypt - Jailed blogger on hunger strike, health failing

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The blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad began a hunger strike in Cairo's Al-Marg prison on 23 August in protest against the three-year jail sentence a military court gave him on 10 April. Sanad has heart problems and his detention since 28 March has undermined his health. He nonetheless says he is determined to continue his protest regardless of the consequences. “I will no longer accept injustice,” Egypt's first prisoner of conscience since the revolution recently said. “If my death is the price that (...)

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