An appeal made by former anti-corruption chief Hisham Genena against a five-year prison sentence was rejected on Sunday by an Egyptian military court, Reuters reports. Genena, an opposition figure who had supported the brief 2018 presidential bid of former military chief of staff Sami Anan against President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, was arrested in February 2018 after threatening to release “sensitive” documents. He was subsequently charged with spreading false news harmful to the military and sentenced to five years in prison. Genena’s daughter has declared Sunday’s verdict, which is subject to further appeal, as being upheld “for political reasons.”