i am of dual chammy of al-jazeera arabic i'm looking at why my colleague mahmoud hussein has been in jail in egypt for nearly two years without trial. he is experienced and as covered several pollutions as a foreign correspondent. as an egyptian the revolution in twenty eleven was a huge challenge for him here what was he like to work with and you know mahmoud you know a nurse in the can with a was what i was. and. they mahmoud can them and he made them that man with a better hope are. the savvy you have. and what money i would stand for made them animal and i like that just a tad when i'm out of the water cave they in the corner. of the early element said go in there man the jimmied will do it and that is easy for them that they have been no formal charges against mahmoud an interior ministry statement simply said that he had carried out a media campaign aimed at what it called spreading chaos however article seven to one of the egyptian constitution say's no cost today will sanction shall be imposed for crimes committed by way of publication or the public nature there of a half a m

i am at delisle chammy and i also work for al jazeera so his situation speaks to me directly because i was arrested in cairo in twenty thirty and. i spent three hundred and nine days in an egyptian jail and while i was there i wrote my thoughts down on scraps of paper. my moves case brought everything flawed in back. like mahmoud i could see no end to my detention and i took the dramatic step of going on hunger strike for five months to draw attention to my case and try and regain my freedom. i can remember the loneliness and how slowly time passes. to date my mood has had no cold herring so there are no formal charges against him. now going to have to live. can i have that one can your. head. is it off was that to happen in bed. but i don't want to. move for same arrived at cairo international airport early on the morning on the nineteenth of december twenty sixth. he was arrested detained for fifteen hours at his passport confiscated but was then released. the following day he went to egypt in state t.v. to make an administrator's request but he was stalled district wide approval b