Undoubtedly the reasons behind the resign of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was very much backed up by services of Facebook and other social media, but as it turn out at least the military of the country will not let itself be a subject of such change. The Egypt’s ruling military council, which is supreme as the country still runs in emergency rule until democratic elections, has sentenced a 26 year-old blogger, Maikel Nabil for three years’ of imprisonment. This punishment was sentenced for apparently doing the crime of “spreading false information” about the Egyptian military.
Mikael Nabil, the blogger |
According to the blog post of Nabil, traced back in March, he had posted several images and video clips which allegedly showed the military police of Egypt thrashing protesters during one of the world’s biggest uprising. Army was alleged few times before as well but it had every time refused any such allegation and claimed that it did not use any unnecessary force against the protesters at the time of protests.