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Aya Hijazi

Aya Hijazi
Alumna, Founder of Belady
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B.A., Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 2009

Biography

Aya Hijazi is an Egyptian-American activist who founded the organisation Belady with the objective of helping out street children. The organisation, launched in September 2013, held campaigns on sanitation and combated sexual harassment and rehabilitation for street children. Visit her Facebook page for more information and pictures of the children’s activities.

She was arrested in Cairo in May 2014 and charged with organising a group with the purposes of human trafficking, holding children for sexual exploitation and using them to disturb the peace in protests against security forces. Despite vehemently denying the charges, she was arrested with her husband (who was running the association with her) and two other colleagues.

 

This information is from the European-Mediterranian Human Rights Network.

Onlinep Petitions for her case:

https://www.change.org/p/free-american-imprisoned-for-helping-homeless-children

https://www.change.org/p/eu-foreign-affairs-ministers-free-human-rights-activists-in-egypt



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April 19, 2017
US President Donald Trump reportedly ordered Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to release a US-Egyptian charity
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April 18, 2017
After three years in detention, Egypt has cleared Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker accused of child abuse
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April 17, 2017
Aya Hijazi never planned to spend three years sitting in an Egyptian prison awaiting trial. On April 16, an Egyptian
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April 16, 2017
CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted Aya Hijazi, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen who has been held in
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April 16, 2017
A Cairo court on Sunday acquitted Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi of child abuse and human trafficking charges
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April 16, 2017
CAIRO — After three years in detention, the Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi was cleared of child abuse
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April 16, 2017
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April 14, 2017
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April 03, 2017
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April 03, 2017
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