Aya Hijazi (also: Hegazy, Higazi; Arabic: آية حجازي) 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.
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23 January 1987 (age 38) (1987-01-23) 23 January 1987 (age 34)
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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