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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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September 15, 2016
A northern Virginia congressman is calling on the Egyptian government to release a prisoner whose arrest two years ago
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September 15, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP) — Aya Hijazi grew up in the U.S., but after college she returned to her native Egypt to start a
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September 15, 2016
Press conference calling for the immediate release of Aya Hijazi, S-CAR Alumna, imprisoned in Egypt for over two years
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September 15, 2016
 WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - Two Northern Virginia representatives are pushing the Obama Administration to do more to get
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September 14, 2016
Remember the Eldarats, the U.S. citizens tortured and jailed in the United Arab Emirates for nearly two years while the
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August 26, 2016
As an undergraduate student at Mason's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Aya Hijazi had a taste for
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July 10, 2016
While pocketing $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military aid, the Egyptian government of Abdel Fatah al-Sissi is waging war
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May 04, 2016
The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the ongoing pretrial detention of Aya Hegazy*** and her husband Mohammed
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April 19, 2016
CAIRO — In the United Arab Emirates, a Libyan-American father and son detained since 2014 on political charges
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February 17, 2016
The trial of Egyptian-American Aya Hegazy***, her husband Mohamed Hassanein and six others facing sex trafficking
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