1. Under international pressure, Ayman Nour was released to participate in the election, which was widely considered to be corrupt and rigged.
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Ayman Nour was arrested again shortly afterward and released nearly five years later.
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Ayman Nour was named the first secretary of Misr Party and the editor-in-chief of the party's newspaper with the same name in October 2001.
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Ayman Nour was the first person to ever compete against President Hosni Mubarak in the 2005 presidential election.
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Shortly after announcing his candidacy for president, Ayman Nour was stripped of his parliamentary immunity and arrested on 29 January 2005.
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Ayman Nour was charged with forging PAs to secure the formation of the el-Ghad party.
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Ayman Nour remained active despite his imprisonment, using the opportunity to write critical articles and make his case and cause better known.
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In February 2005, Condoleezza Rice abruptly postponed a visit to Egypt, reflecting US displeasure at the jailing of Ayman Nour, who was reported to have been brutally interrogated.
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In March 2005, following a strong intervention in Cairo by a group of members of the European Parliament led by Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott, Ayman Nour was freed and began a campaign for the Egyptian presidency.
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We are disturbed by reports that Mr Ayman Nour's health has seriously declined due to the hunger strike on which he has embarked in protest of the conditions of his trial and detention.
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From prison, Ayman Nour stated "I pay the price when [Rice] speaks [of me], and I pay the price when she doesn't", Ayman Nour said.
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Ayman Nour was released, officially on health grounds, on 18 February 2009, just a few months before he would have completed his prison sentence.
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In December 2019, Ayman Nour launched the Egyptian National Action Group, a group of Egyptian expatriates calling for an end to military rule in Egypt.
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In December 2021, the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab reported that Ayman Nour's phone had been infected with the Predator and Pegasus spywares.