Activist Michael Nabīl, who was pardoned on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2012 Revolution, said that he was not subjected to any torture inside his prison but watched many torture cases inside military jails and al-Marg prison, where he was serving a three-year term for insulting the military establishment.

"I have decided to go on a hunger strike because I refused to be tried before the farcical military court. All that I have been subjected to ever since I was arrested and until the amnesty decision had nothing to do with freedoms or the law," said Nabīl during a press conference held at the Syndicate of Journalists on Saturday, Jan. 28.

He added that this was the third time he was arrested.

"The first time was because I founded the 'No To Compulsory Draft' Movement, which helped me collect plenty of information about the army," said Nabīl, criticizing the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and accusing it of aborting the revolution of the Egyptian people. [Fārūq al-Jamal, al-Misrī al-Yawm, Jan. 29, p. 7]