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One of Egypt’s leading dissident bloggers today issued a defiant message from behind bars to the country’s ‘militarist’ rulers.
“Prison never changed an idea,” said Maikel Nabil Sanad (left), who was last week given a two-year jail sentence by a military court in Cairo. The blogger, widely known as in post-Mubarak Egypt’s first prisoner of conscience or Egypt’s Sharansky, refuses to pay outstanding legal fees, rejects the legitimacy of the court, and vows to continue his hunger strike until death, if necessary.
His sentence “insults the spirit” of Egypt’s Jasmine revolution, saidReporters Without Borders.
