Trump welcomes freed US-Egypt prisoner Aya Hijazi to White House

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The president said he was "very happy" that Aya Hijazi, 30, was flown back to the US on Thursday night.

Ms Hijazi, whose charity cared for street children, faced child abuse charges branded false by rights groups.

Her release was reportedly agreed before Mr Trump met Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi this month.
The Trump administration negotiated the release of a US citizen who was held in an Egyptian prison for three years.

Aya Hijazi, who is of Egyptian-American heritage, was released and brought back to her family in Washington, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Hijazi was in Egypt running a nongovernmental organization that was seen as an anti-Egyptian scheme by Egyptian security officials, according to The Post. Her Egyptian husband and four coworkers were arrested as well.


Hijazi and her coworkers were imprisoned on May 1, 2014 on child abuse and trafficking charges — accusations that were baseless, according to US officials and human-rights workers — due to the lack of evidence. In prison, Hijazi her companions were allegedly subjected to "coercive interrogation techniques," while their trial dates were either canceled or continuously postponed.

President Barack Obama attempted to negotiate their release with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi; however, the chilled relationship between the two countries complicated the talks.

It wasn't until President Donald Trump invited Sissi to the White House earlier this month — an act that drew ire from critics of Sissi's authoritarian government — that relations with Egypt appeared to stabilize. During the meeting, Trump called Sissi's leadership as "fantastic" and said that Egypt had "strong backing" from the US government, The Post reported.

"It's been a roller coaster of emotions the past couple of days," said her brother, Basel Hijazi. "We're crying with relief to have them out."

"We're very grateful that President Trump personally engaged with the issue. Working closely with the Trump administration was very important for my family at this critical time. It let us be reunited as a family. We're so grateful."
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http://www.businessinsider.com/aya-hijazi-released-egypt-us-trump-2017-4
 
fantastic. Trump resets the Egyptian relationship with el-Sissi. Our most important Arab partner in the middle east
Relations were "chilled" by Obama's stupidity of imposing sanctions.

all fixed. Saudi Arabia too.
 
woot woot. I shall work towards the day an american citizen can go anywhere and declare he is an american citizen and be assured of protection for he will have the power of rome behind his back.
 
Rune said:
Trump shit must taste real good.
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Which tastes best.....HATE or CROW? After 3 years of failed attempts by the last administration....President Trump personally brokered the release within weeks after taking office. :)
 
Rune said:
Trump shit must taste real good.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi



Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي‎‎ Abdu'l-Fattāḥ Sa'īd Ḥusayn Khalīl as-Sīsī, IPA:*[ʕæbdəl.fətˈtæːħ sæˈʕiːd ħuˈseːn xæˈliːl əsˈsiːsi]; born 19 November 1954), is the sixth and incumbent President of Egypt, in office since 2014.
Sisi was born in Cairo and after joining the military, held a post in Saudi Arabia before enrolling in the Egyptian Army's Command and Staff College. In 1992 Sisi trained at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom, and then in 2006 trained at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Sisi served as a mechanized infantry commander and then as directory of military intelligence. After the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and election of Mohamed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency, Sisi was named head of the armed forces.
As chief-of-staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Sisi launched the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état that deposed President Morsi on July 3, 2013, in response to earlier mass protests on June 30. He dissolved the Egyptian Constitution of 2012 and proposed, along with leading opposition and religious figures, a new political road map, which included the voting for a new constitution, and new parliamentary and presidential elections. Morsi was replaced by an interim president, Adly Mansour, who appointed a new cabinet.
The government cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist supporters in the months that followed, and later on liberal opponents of the post-Morsi administration. On 14 August 2013, the Sisi-backed government carried out the August 2013 Rabaa massacre, which led to international criticism.[1] On 26 March 2014, in response to calls from anti Muslim Brotherhood protesters, Sisi resigned from his military career, announcing that he would run as a candidate in the 2014 presidential election.[2] The election, held between 26 and 28 May and which included only one opponent, was boycotted by most political parties and the Muslim Brotherhood,[3] and resulted in Sisi winning the presidency with more than 93% of the vote.[3][4] Sisi was sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.
 
why was she taken prisoner?? why is Sisis criticized??? ....
I mean if you are going to spout this stuff-shouldn't you understand why?

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/30/42783...-prison-for-1-year-over-unfounded-child-abuse
among the thousands picked up in sweeping arrests in Egypt over the last couple of years is an Egyptian-American woman named Ayah Hijazi. She's been held in jail for more than a year without a trial. Hijazi went to George Mason University in Virginia and moved with her family to Egypt where she decided to help some of Cairo's poorest residents. NPR's Leila Fadel has her story.

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: When Ayah Hijazi moved to Egypt, she wanted to do something to help the children she saw sleeping in Cairo's garbage-strewn streets, exposed to abuse, so Hijazi opened an organization, Beladi - my country - with her Egyptian husband in 2013.

NAGLAA HOSNY: She was very strict about no slapping, no beating, no cursing, no cussing of these kids. And she did not allow any of the volunteers to call them Owlad Shawaraa - street kids. And she told them they are Owlad Beladi - the children of my country.

FADEL: That's Naglaa Hosny, Hijazi's mother. Soon after the organization opened, her Egyptian-American daughter was detained with her husband and five others. Hosny describes the interrogation after the arrest.

HOSNY: He hit her hard on her neck. That made her fall. She did not cry. She's a tough one. But when Wakil al Niaba started reading the accusations, that's when she started crying.

FADEL: Wakil al Niaba means the prosecutor. The accusations include molestation and holding children against their will. Hijazi's case was splashed across local newspapers, describing her as an American abusing Egyptian children and paying them to attack security forces. It was at a time civil society organizations were being shut down, demonized and painted as foreign agents. The shelter was near Tahrir Square, the center of many of Egypt's protests.
 
evince said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi



Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي‎‎ Abdu'l-Fattāḥ Sa'īd Ḥusayn Khalīl as-Sīsī, IPA:*[ʕæbdəl.fətˈtæːħ sæˈʕiːd ħuˈseːn xæˈliːl əsˈsiːsi]; born 19 November 1954), is the sixth and incumbent President of Egypt, in office since 2014.
Sisi was born in Cairo and after joining the military, held a post in Saudi Arabia before enrolling in the Egyptian Army's Command and Staff College. In 1992 Sisi trained at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom, and then in 2006 trained at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Sisi served as a mechanized infantry commander and then as directory of military intelligence. After the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and election of Mohamed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency, Sisi was named head of the armed forces.
As chief-of-staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Sisi launched the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état that deposed President Morsi on July 3, 2013, in response to earlier mass protests on June 30. He dissolved the Egyptian Constitution of 2012 and proposed, along with leading opposition and religious figures, a new political road map, which included the voting for a new constitution, and new parliamentary and presidential elections. Morsi was replaced by an interim president, Adly Mansour, who appointed a new cabinet.
The government cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist supporters in the months that followed, and later on liberal opponents of the post-Morsi administration. On 14 August 2013, the Sisi-backed government carried out the August 2013 Rabaa massacre, which led to international criticism.[1] On 26 March 2014, in response to calls from anti Muslim Brotherhood protesters, Sisi resigned from his military career, announcing that he would run as a candidate in the 2014 presidential election.[2] The election, held between 26 and 28 May and which included only one opponent, was boycotted by most political parties and the Muslim Brotherhood,[3] and resulted in Sisi winning the presidency with more than 93% of the vote.[3][4] Sisi was sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.
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this guy huh
 
anatta said:
why was she taken prisoner?? why is Sisis criticized??? ....
I mean if you are going to spout this stuff-shouldn't you understand why?

http://www.npr.org/2015/07/30/42783...-prison-for-1-year-over-unfounded-child-abuse
among the thousands picked up in sweeping arrests in Egypt over the last couple of years is an Egyptian-American woman named Ayah Hijazi. She's been held in jail for more than a year without a trial. Hijazi went to George Mason University in Virginia and moved with her family to Egypt where she decided to help some of Cairo's poorest residents. NPR's Leila Fadel has her story.

LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: When Ayah Hijazi moved to Egypt, she wanted to do something to help the children she saw sleeping in Cairo's garbage-strewn streets, exposed to abuse, so Hijazi opened an organization, Beladi - my country - with her Egyptian husband in 2013.

NAGLAA HOSNY: She was very strict about no slapping, no beating, no cursing, no cussing of these kids. And she did not allow any of the volunteers to call them Owlad Shawaraa - street kids. And she told them they are Owlad Beladi - the children of my country.

FADEL: That's Naglaa Hosny, Hijazi's mother. Soon after the organization opened, her Egyptian-American daughter was detained with her husband and five others. Hosny describes the interrogation after the arrest.

HOSNY: He hit her hard on her neck. That made her fall. She did not cry. She's a tough one. But when Wakil al Niaba started reading the accusations, that's when she started crying.

FADEL: Wakil al Niaba means the prosecutor. The accusations include molestation and holding children against their will. Hijazi's case was splashed across local newspapers, describing her as an American abusing Egyptian children and paying them to attack security forces. It was at a time civil society organizations were being shut down, demonized and painted as foreign agents. The shelter was near Tahrir Square, the center of many of Egypt's protests.
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What is your point, cunt?
 
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