Maikel Nabil Live Blog

16 weeks 5 days ago - Egypt

Egyptian anti-military activist Maikel Nabil, who was recently pardoned and released from prison after being held for nearly a year, gave his first live television interview to Al Jazeera this evening and said he rejected his pardon from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.

Anyone who "committed an injustice" against him should be prosecuted, he said. Nabil was often held in isolation and prevented from contacting the media. He embarked on a hunger strike but abandoned it in late December

Nabil was one of the first protesters to openly criticise the military after an 18-day uprising ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak. He arrested in March after writing a blog post entitled "The People and the Army Were Never One Hand". He was released on January 24.

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17 weeks 2 days ago - Egypt

Jailed blogger Maikel Nabil has been released. For more on this, watch Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, who will be reporting live from Cairo shortly.

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17 weeks 5 days ago - Egypt

Maikel Nabil, a prominent blogger, is among those due to be released, according to that order from SCAF chief Hussein Tantawi.

He was serving a two-year sentence for "insulting the military".

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23 weeks 1 day ago - Egypt

adamakaryToday, a verdict is expected (again) in the trial of detained blogger #MaikelNabil #EgyptWed Dec 14 05:34:35

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32 weeks 2 days ago - Egypt

A mistrial has been announced for the Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil, his brother told our correspondent.

Nabil's brother came out from the military court and spoke with Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros about today's ruling. Tadros reports:

The judge has essentially decided to declare that verdict that they had given Maikel Nabil back in April, giving him a 3 year sentence, null and void. 

In two days' time, the case will be transferred from the military trial to the military prosecutor and he, [the prosecutor], will then decide on another day with which to start this military trial for Maikel Nabil.

This is an appeals case so it wasn't going to look into whether Nabil was guilty or not guilty. It simply looked into procedural issues behind the case itself, for the problems found with the procedure during the initial trial. That is why a retrial is being called.

The brother of Maikel Nabil is very upset. He mentioned that Maikel has been on a hunger strike for almost 50 days. They are very concerned about his health and as far as we understand, he won't be let out in the interim period until another trial is called.

He will actually stay incarcerated, which means that he will stay on his hunger strike.

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