According to a human rights group supporting them, Hijazi, Hassanein, six volunteers and several children were arrested in a raid. “For about three days they were incommnicado,” Alaa Hijazi said. Prosecutors stalled, renewing detention without charges for 15 days at a time, a tactic McMullen said has become “quite routine”. “From everything we can tell, it’s ridiculous,” said Sarah Margon, the Washington director of Human Rights Watch. Samantha Power (@AmbassadorPower) Met family of Aya Hijazi, jailed w/o charges 865 days in #Egypt for running children’s shelter.

Source: The Guardian October 17, 2016 10:30 UTC