Egyptian Street Children's Help Group Founders Released from Prison

In the wake of the events of the Egyptian Arab Spring, a couple who founded an organization to work with street children found themselves charged with sex crimes and human trafficking and thrown in prison for 3 years.

According to the couple, one day a father came to them looking for a child they said they had not seen, and after the father became abusive, they went to file a report at the police station, but found themselves charged with human trafficking.

American politicians, including Obama, Ted Cruz, and most recently Trump (who met with the Egyptian president 6 weeks ago) lobbied to try to get them out of prison. Half of the couple, the woman Aya Hijazi, is American.

The acquittal came as a total surprise to the couple who heard about it from the judge as they attended a court hearing in the cage. Shortly thereafter, Hijazi met Trump in the White House.

Trump Calls Killers of Christians in Egypt "Organizations"

Trump continues to not use the term he frequently challenged others to use during his campaign, "radical Islamic terrorism," when commenting this week on the attack on Christians in Egypt that killed 25 and wounded as many others.

Attacks on Christians by Muslims are common in Egypt and other Muslim-majority countries in the area.

Trump called those responsible for the attacks "evil organizations of terror with a thuggish ideology."