Egypt jails a blogger

In a precedent-setting development in Egypt, a blogger has been arrested for blogging content that insulted the military. The blogger, Maikel Nabil, was arrested in March and has been sentenced to a 3 year prison term by a military tribunal for the crime.

You can read the full story here on Al Jazeera.

We normally have nothing to do with politics or national activism here on Techzim but we thought this was worth posting. Especially because just yesterday we were celebrating Zimbabwean bloggers. So, fellow bloggers…