Egyptian rights group head hopes release will help other prisoners
AIDAN LEWIS THE head of a leading Egyptian human rights group who was held for two weeks on terrorism charges said he hoped that the campaign to secure his release would help others still jailed on similar allegations. Activists saw the detention last month of Gasser Abdel Razek, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), and two of the group's other staff, as the latest escalation of a broad crackdown on political dissent under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egypt's foreign ministry had said EIPR was operating illegally, an accusation the group denies. There has been no official…