Aya Hijazi

Aya Hijazi (also spelled: Hegazy or Higazi, Arabic: آية حجازي, born 23 January 1987) is an Egyptian-American charity worker and social activist. Together with her husband she founded an NGO "Belady Foundation" to support child political prisoners in Egypt. Hijazi, her husband and five other Belady members were imprisoned in Cairo from 2014 until 2017, when the Cairo Criminal Court found them innocent. Quotes We have to believe until the very last day we die. PBS News I would like to think of them as universal values, humanity, number one, a good governed state where people can express themselves, where they can freely assemble, where they can live in harmony and peace. PBS News If you asked me to name my life’s accomplishment, I would answer with one word: Belady (‘my country’). The Washington Post Belady, a nongovernmental organization I founded with my husband in Egypt, was an island of humanity that protected 40 street children who were abused, raped and shunned. The Washington Post I hope he gets to know that the human rights situation is really horrible at that time, and people are not just — it's not just for fighting terrorism, because people are unjustly held, and there are so many fabricated cases. PBS News External links Category:Women politicians in Egypt Category:Women activists from Egypt Category:Television presenters Category:Political activists Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Living people