Release

22 January, 2012
In an attempt to improve their image, the military regime released almost 2,000 prisoners convicted by military tribunals in the year since the uprising, including Coptic Christian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad (pictured on protest banners above), who had been jailed for insulting the army. Fellow blogger Alaa Abd el Fattah had finally been released in late December, although he remained under a travel ban.