Egypt's
Revolution
Leading
Egyptian blogger Asmaa Mahfouz has been questioned for allegedly defaming the
military on Facebook, the official Mena news agency reports.
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| Asma Mahfuz now faces a trial before a military tribunal for her alleged Facebook comments |
She was
briefly detained by military prosecutors and later released on a bail of $3,356
(£2,062), it says.
Ms Mahfouz,
one of the leaders of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, is
suspected of calling for assassination attacks against the military and
judicial bodies.
Her lawyer
denies the accusations.
'No
tolerance'
According
to Mena, Ms Mahfouz wrote on Facebook: "If justice is not achieved and the
justice system fails us, no-one should feel upset or surprised if armed gangs
emerge to carry out assassinations.
"As
long as there is no law and there is no justice, anything can happen, and
nobody should be upset."
The head of
the military judicial authority, Maj Gen Mahmud Morsi, said the blogger had
overstepped the limits of free speech by insulting the military, the AFP news
agency reports.
He added
that there would be "no tolerance to insults directed at the armed
forces".
Mena said
Ms Mahfouz was released on bail until a date is was set for her trial before a
military tribunal.
However, Ms
Mahfouz's laywer denied the accusations.
Hossam Issa
told the AFP news agency: "What Asmaa wrote on Facebook is not a call to
violence... She was only expressing her fears and that is not a crime".
The lawyer
added that the comments attributed to Ms Mahfouz on the other social network -
Twitter - were not her own and that someone had hacked into her account.
Egypt's
Supreme Council of the Armed Forces took power after the mass street protests
that forced President Mubarak to resign in February.
Earlier
this month, Mr Mubarak went on trial on charges of corruption and ordering the
killing of protesters.
The former
leader denies the charges.
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