Democracy Digest » Search Results » Maikel Nabil Sanad http://www.demdigest.net/blog News and analysis on democracy assistance and promotion Fri, 17 May 2013 21:07:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The lesson from Egypt’s generals http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/03/the-lesson-from-egypts-generals/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/03/the-lesson-from-egypts-generals/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:52:54 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=14548 Known variously as Egypt’s Sharansky and post-Mubarak Egypt’s first prisoner of conscience, Maikel Nabil Sanad (right) recently served 10 months in prison for blogging about the military’s human rights violations. His detention sends the same message as the authorities’ …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/03/the-lesson-from-egypts-generals/feed/ 1 ‘Egypt’s Sharansky’ remains defiant http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/12/egypts-sharansky-remains-defiant/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/12/egypts-sharansky-remains-defiant/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:44:12 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=13373 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 …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/12/egypts-sharansky-remains-defiant/feed/ 0 Post-Mubarak Egypt’s first prisoner of conscience sentenced http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/12/post-mubarak-egypts-first-prisoner-of-conscience-sentenced/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/12/post-mubarak-egypts-first-prisoner-of-conscience-sentenced/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:17:30 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=13322 Egypt may have completed the second round of its first democratic elections, but the sentencing of a dissident blogger is a disturbing sign of authoritarian resilience, say rights groups.

Maikel Nabil Sanad (above), widely known as the first prisoner …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/12/post-mubarak-egypts-first-prisoner-of-conscience-sentenced/feed/ 0 Concern grows for jailed Egyptian blogger on hunger strike http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/09/concern-grows-for-jailed-egyptian-blogger-on-hunger-strike/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/09/concern-grows-for-jailed-egyptian-blogger-on-hunger-strike/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:38:37 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=12230 Jailed Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad (right) is in critical condition after going on a hunger strike on August 23, the World Movement for Democracy reports. Sanad was arrested by the Egyptian military on March 28 for “denouncing human …

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