Egypt: Aya Hijazi`s Trial a Travesty
(World News Egypt)

(Beirut) - A Cairo court´s decision on March 23, 2017 to postpone issuing its verdict in the case of Aya Hijazi and the Belady Foundation for Street Children casts a further shadow on the ability of Egypt´s judicial system to deliver justice in this bizarre case, Human Rights Watch said today. Hijazi and her co-defendants, including her husband, have been held in custody since their arrest in May 2014, well beyond the two-year limit for pretrial and provisional detention under Egyptian law, and the frequently postponed proceedings have been marked by serious fair trial violations. The court provided no reason for postponing its verdict. Expand Aya Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein,...