Activist Aya Hijazi cleared of human trafficking charges

CAIRO-16 APRIL: The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Sunday Aya Hijazi, founder of Belady NGO, along with seven other defendants after finding them not guilty of charges of human trafficking.

US-Egyptian citizen Aya Hijazi was arrested alongside her husband, Mohammed Hasaanein, and six others in May 2014 on charges of abusing children in her care, as well as participating in human trafficking, sexual exploitation and torture.

In September 2013, along with Mohammed Hassanein, she launched the (Belady Foundation for Street Children). The foundation aimed to address the plight of street children in Egypt who did not have the opportunity to attend school, and provide them with reading, writing and art classes, recycling workshops, and other activities.




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