A court in Aswan has ordered the continued detention of 24 Nubians who were arrested for participating in an unsanctioned protest on Sunday, Reuters’ Arabic service said yesterday. The protesters had been marching to call for the return of their ancestral homeland, the wire adds. We had said in July that Nubian rights groups were planning to take their case against the state to the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights. The Associated Press also has the story.

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