Freed Egyptian American prisoner returns home 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 released 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. (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)
By Philip Rucker and Karen DeYoung April 20 at 10:34 PM
An Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years and became the global face of Egypt’s 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.
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In case, this hadn't been reported.
