An Egyptian blogger recently pardoned by the military has urged activists to continue their revolution against the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
"I tell the revolutionaries, if the revolution does not continue and you stop, then you will all end up in prison, and maybe even worse," Maikel Sanad Nabil said in his first news conference in Cairo since he was freed.
The 26-year-old Coptic Christian spent months in prison after he was charged with insulting military rulers by documenting their violations on his blog following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. The head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, pardoned hundreds of prisoners, including Nabil, days before the first anniversary of the January 25 uprising that toppled Mubarak.
Nabil has described his ill-treatment in prison, during which he witnessed torture, saying the experience left him more defiant.
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Over 12,000 Egyptians have faced military tribunals since Mubarak's ousting and millions of Egyptians are protesting to demand the end of military rule.
