Egyptian political activist and blogger Michael Nabīl, who spent 302 days before SCAF pardoned him on the first anniversary of the January 25, 2011 revolution, said he spent very long times in solitary confinement.

“Even if I was allowed mingling with other prisoners, they are strictly ordered not to talk with me otherwise they usually got beaten and verbally abused,” said Nabīl in an interview with al-Ahrām newspaper.

He denied that he was beaten while he was in prison but said he was harassed in other ways by having his hair cut and forced to take off his clothes and stay in his underwear for a long time until his prison uniform is brought. [Author Not Mentioned, al-Ahrām, Jan. 30, p. 6]