Egyptian satirists’ detention renewed

An Egyptian court yesterday rejected the appeal filed by six members of the satirical group Street Children over their detention for “incitement to overthrow the regime”, judicial sources said.

Sources told the Anadolu Agency that the Giza Criminal Court rejected the case against the renewal of the detention of the comedians for a further 15 days.

This is the seventh time the group’s detention has been renewed, their lawyer Mahmoud Othman told the Anadolu.

The week before their arrest, Street Children released a satirical music video in which they mocked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and called on him to leave office.