An Egyptian military court sentenced on Tuesday former anti-corruption chief Hisham Geneina to five years in jail for making statements against the army.
He had claimed that a presidential candidate had secret documents allegedly damaging to the army, his lawyer said.
"The verdict is five years, and we're doing the appeal (procedure) now," lawyer Ali Taha said.
The military detained Geneina in February accusing him of "spreading news that harms the armed forces" following an interview he gave to Huffpost Arabi, the Arabic version of the US news site.
Taha said he was convicted on the same charge.
Moataz Wadnan, the journalist who conducted the interview, was also arrested.
Geneina, a qualified judge, was sacked by President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi as head of the Central Auditing Authority in 2016 after he was accused of exaggerating the cost of corruption in Egypt.
