Following Trump intervention
Aya Hijazi and her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, founders of Belady, a nongovernmental organization that promotes a better life for street children, have returned to the United States after being releaed in Egypt, following the intervention of the Trump administration. They had spent nearly three years in prison on charges that were widely regarded as false
An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypts brutal crackdown on civil society returned home to the United States late Thursday after the Trump administration quietly negotiated her release.
President Trump and his aides worked for several weeks with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to secure the freedom of Aya Hijazi, 30, a U.S. citizen, as well as her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, who is Egyptian, and four other humanitarian workers. Trump dispatched a U.S. government aircraft to Cairo to bring Hijazi and her family to Washington.
Hijazi, who grew up in Falls Church, Va., and graduated from George Mason University, was working in Cairo with the Belady Foundation, which she and her husband established as a haven and rehabilitation center for street children in Cairo.
The couple and their co-workers had been incarcerated since May 1, 2014, on child abuse and trafficking charges that were widely dismissed by human rights workers and U.S. officials as false. Virtually no evidence was ever presented against them, and for nearly three years they were held as hearings were inexplicably postponed and trial dates canceled. Human rights groups alleged that they were abused in detention.
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Egyptian American prisoner returns home
2017-04-21 08:19:11
2017-04-21 20:16:15
In reply to djdrastic
The salient question is this :
WHAT WAS THE PRICE PAID BY
TRUMP TO SPRING THEM FROM
THEIR JAIL IN EGYPT ???????
The American People need to
know this ; before gloating about
the Greatness of Donald Trump .
2017-04-21 20:17:37
In reply to djdrastic
Great job Mr President. Another solid win in the first 100 days.
2017-04-22 01:29:17
In reply to POINT
WHAT WAS THE PRICE PAID BY
TRUMP TO SPRING THEM FROM
THEIR JAIL IN EGYPT
2 pallets fully loaded with swiss francs
2017-04-22 08:41:17
In reply to nitro
Great job Mr President. Another solid win in the first 100 days
there are 10 more Americans in jail there and a total of 60000 political prisoners.
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