 (SomaliNet) Egypt's imprisoned opposition leader, Ayman Nour, is experiencing a deteriorating health condition in a prison cell in Egypt, his wife has said. Nour is diabetic and his livelihood is dependant on insulin, Gameela Ismail, his wife has said. However, she says that her husband won't scoop as low as asking for forgiveness from Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak.
Nour came second in Egypt's 2005 presidential elections and was sentenced to a five year jail term on accusations of forging signatures to found Egypt's Ghad party.
| For some unclear reason the people who signed weren't willing to walk into an Egyptian police station to swear to their signatures. It happens. |
"He is not going to ask for a pardon. He is reading the law books and trying to find ways to help his release in a dignified way, without begging and asking for mercy in a humiliating way," Ismail told Reuters. "This would abort the whole political reform movement. This would put off and frustrate all of the young opposition who still believe they should struggle and continue to say enough to President Mubarak," she added. |