{"id":22182,"date":"2011-04-12T16:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=22182"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:40:09","slug":"egypt-blogger-given-three-year-jail-sentence-for-criticising-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=22182","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: blogger given three-year jail sentence for criticising military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maikel Nabil, a 26-year old blogger, has been <a title=\"BBC News: Egypt blogger Maikel Nabil jailed by military court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13038937\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced<\/a> to three years in jail for writing a negative article about the <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Egypt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/egypt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Egyptian<\/a> armed forces. Mr. Nabil was arrested last month after publishing a blog in which he criticised the army\u2019s role during anti-government protests in February. Mr Nabil\u2019s lawyer has <a title=\"Los Angeles Times: Egyptian protesters increasingly disillusioned with army\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-egypt-military-20110412,0,5590258.story\" target=\"_blank\">criticised<\/a> the conduct of the military court after they allegedly chose not to consider the content of the blogs. An appeal is set to be launched later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maikel Nabil, a 26-year old blogger, has been sentenced to three years in jail for writing a negative article about the Egyptian armed forces. Mr. Nabil was arrested last month after publishing a blog in which he criticised the army\u2019s role during anti-government protests in February. Mr Nabil\u2019s lawyer has criticised the conduct of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585,581],"tags":[7376,3366,1772,3367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22190,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22182\/revisions\/22190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}