Egypt urged to release blogger sentenced by military court

Headline Title: Egypt urged to release blogger sentenced by military court 14 December 2011 Egypt’s military rulers are continuing their patterns of abuse, Amnesty International said today, after a military court confirmed the imprisonment of a prominent blogger upon his military retrial. Prisoner of conscience Maikel Nabil Sanad had his three year sentence reduced to two years today after a retrial before a military court. He was imprisoned in April for criticizing the post-Mubarak military authorities on his Facebook page and for “spreading lies and rumours about the armed…

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