Who is a "key opposition figure"?

Note to AP: do you really need to refer to thoroughly discredited former Wafdist leader No'man Gomaa as a "key opposition figure"? Perhaps when you mentioned that Gomaa was released by prosecutors "because he was in poor health" (ignoring many Egyptian press reports that he was moved to a hospital simply to be spared from jail) you could have perhaps mentioned a real "key opposition figure", Ayman Nour, who a) actually has a disease (diabetes and associated ills)and was not given this special treatment even before he was sentenced to jail and b) today started a hunger strike to protest the fact that he is prevented from publishing his column and being held in unbelievable conditions in a prison hospital?

Just a thought.