CAIRO: Detained blogger Maikel Nabil’s retrial will begin on October 18, according to media reports on Thursday.
Earlier this week, a military court dropped a three-year prison sentence handed down to Nabil and ordered a retrial, also in a military court.
Nabil has been on hunger strike for more than 50 days. Requests by his lawyers and family that he be released until the retrial have gone unanswered.
He was previously charged with insulting the armed forces and spreading false news in a blog post titled "The army and the people are not one hand" last March.
"We presented an official request to the court to release my son who has been on hunger strike … his health condition is deteriorating and he has to be transferred immediately to the intensive care unit," Maikel’s father Nabil Sanad told Daily News Egypt on Tuesday.
Nabil began a hunger strike in protest at what he considers discrimination against him, after the ruling military council pardoned activists Asmaa Mahfouz and Loai Nagati for similar charges.
