Egypt’s Answer to Unjust Detentions Is More Arrests

Families, Lawyers, Former Detainees, and Journalists All Targets

In a living-room-sized hall of a political party’s Cairo headquarters, family members of prisoners gathered around a photo exhibition on May 12. There, they shared grievances and called on Egyptian authorities to release their loved ones.

In the days that followed, the National Security Agency summoned several of the families for interrogation and detained a number of the event’s organizers. Three of the organizers–lawyers Wafaa…