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Aya Hijazi

Aya Hijazi, founder of a nonprofit charity that looks after Egyptian street children, sat reading a book inside a holding cell as she faced trial in a courthouse in Cairo, Egypt on March 23.

American charity worker in Egypt is acquitted after three years in jail

Justice

Her US lawyer says engagement with the Egyptians by the Trump and Obama administrations, as well as by Congress and advocacy groups, helped win her release.

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