{"id":235863,"date":"2026-06-10T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-answer-to-unjust-detentions-is-more-arrests\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:00:31","slug":"egypts-answer-to-unjust-detentions-is-more-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypts-answer-to-unjust-detentions-is-more-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Answer to Unjust Detentions Is More Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Families, Lawyers, Former Detainees, and Journalists All Targets<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a living-room-sized hall of a political party&#8217;s Cairo headquarters, family members of prisoners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2044345973127907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gathered<\/a> around a photo exhibition on May 12. There, they shared grievances and called on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/n-africa\/egypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Egyptian<\/a> authorities to release their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"87\">In the days that followed, the National Security Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/manassa.news\/news\/32094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summoned several<\/a> of the families for interrogation and detained a number of the event&#8217;s organizers. Three of the organizers&#8211;lawyers Wafaa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606090085.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families, Lawyers, Former Detainees, and Journalists All Targets In a living-room-sized hall of a political party&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":235864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550862:74339f43b93900cce4b7765001d97433:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7727,7845,10175,415,6989,257,254,30028],"class_list":["post-235863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-answer","tag-arrests","tag-detentions","tag-egypt-news","tag-egypts","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unjust"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00550862:74339f43b93900cce4b7765001d97433:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}