Ahmed Hassan Bassyouni, 30, was blogging advice on how to enter the armed services and to prepare the necessary papers, according to Agence France Presse (AFP).
They accused him of "spreading military secrets over the Internet without permission." He was sentenced to six months in prison and been fined 500 pounds (85 dollars/65 euros).
Amnesty International declared Bassyouni a "prisoner of conscience" ahead of his court martial on charges that he revealed "military secrets" by publishing information about military service already available in the public domain.
"The Egyptian authorities must end the practice of trying civilians before military courts. This is an abuse of the Egyptian judicial system and the right to a fair trial," Amnesty said.
In Kuwait, lawyer and blogger Mohammad Abdul Qadir Al Jasem was sentenced to one in year in prison after he was found guilty of defaming Kuwait's Prime Minister, Shaikh Nasser Al Mohammad Al Subah .
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), Syria has detained a teen blogger -- a 19-year-old high school student -- for nine months without charge.
The group charges this is "typical of the cruel, arbitrary behavior of Syria's security services. A government that thinks it can get away with trampling the rights of its citizens has lost all connection to its people," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director.
Since her arrest, the security services have not allowed her family
to communicate with her and have not offered any explanation for the arrest.
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