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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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March 31, 2017
WASHINGTON — The White House signaled on Friday that it would no longer allow human rights issues to become a
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March 30, 2017
Mohamed Soltan is a human rights advocate and founder of theFreedomi.org. He was imprisoned in Egypt for 22 months
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March 22, 2017
The undersigned political parties and NGOs call for the release of Aya Hijazi, her husband Mohammed Hassanein, and
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February 27, 2017
Aya and Mohamed’s trial resumed on Saturday February 19, 2017 and lasted for 6 days, including time for the
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January 19, 2017
The case of Aya Hijazi has caught the attention of Americans who are well outside the typical audience for Egypt news.
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December 28, 2016
“She has read a lot of books,” says Basel Hijazi about his sister Aya. “Novels do help her escape the
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December 28, 2016
McLEAN, Va. –  Family and friends of an American jailed in Egypt for nearly three years are hoping her time
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December 15, 2016
TO AMERICANS who assume that Egypt, as a recipient of $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid, is a friendly ally, the
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December 08, 2016
In May 2014, Aya Hijazi, a 29-year-old Egyptian-American humanitarian worker, was imprisoned in Egypt. For more than
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December 05, 2016
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,
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