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    Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.2cac1d0a5adb

    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.
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    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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    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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    The Obama administration unsuccessfully pressed Sissi’s government for their release. It was not until Trump moved to reset U.S. relations with Egypt by embracing Sissi at the White House on April 3 — he publicly hailed the autocrat’s leadership as “fantastic” and offered the U.S. government’s “strong backing” — that Egypt’s posture changed. Last Sunday, a court in Cairo dropped all charges against Hijazi and the others.

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is the Egyptian people's special gift to the State of Israel.

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    Aya Hijazi was supplying pizza to happy patrons across the Middle East, but especially those in "Israel."


    Ms. Hijazi, who has dual American and Egyptian citizenship, was arrested in May 2014 with her husband, Mohamed Hassanein, and others at the Beladi Foundation, a nonprofit she founded to care [sic] for street children in Cairo.

    Government prosecutors accused the couple of human trafficking and sexually abusing children in their care, potential charges that carried sentences ranging from five years’ hard labor to life in prison.



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_...cking_in_Egypt

    Some of Egypt's estimated two hundred thousand to one million street children – both boys and girls – are exploited in prostitution and forced begging. Local gangs are, at times, involved in this exploitation. Egyptian children are recruited for domestic and agricultural labor; some of these children face conditions indicative of involuntary servitude, such as restrictions on movement, non-payment of wages, threats, and physical or sexual abuse. In addition, wealthy men from the Gulf reportedly travel to Egypt to purchase "temporary" or "summer marriages" with Egyptian females, including girls who are under the age of 18; these arrangements are often facilitated by the females' parents and marriage brokers and are a form of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Child sex tourism occurs in Cairo, Alexandria, and Luxor. Egypt is a transit country for women trafficked from Uzbekistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, and other Eastern European countries to Israel for commercial sexual exploitation; organized crime groups are involved in these movements.
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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    even without reading CT's post, I already could smell a rat...
    All the money that exists cannot buy Earth, and the evidence is that we destroy our habitat as a result, thinking that we can just seize and pillage as we see fit. If crowds endorse the pursuit of wealth at their own level, they cannot prevent multinationals from doing exactly the same. The “dystopian endless growth paradigm” is going to end with a bang but will open the door to a premise endorsing that Earth is the only wealth we truly have while journeying through life.

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    Aya Hijazi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    Published 7:34 pm EDT, April 21, 2017 Updated 8:05 pm EDT, April 21, 2017

    1. Hijazi & Her Husband Were Arrested In 2014, But the Charges Were Said to be ‘Fabricated’

    Egyptian-US citizen Aya Hijazi acquitted after nearly 3 years in detention for her NGO helping street children https://t.co/C92bcansqV pic.twitter.com/qcwcvk0v66
    — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) April 16, 2017


    Hijazi, her husband (Mohamed Hassanein) and six others were arrested in May 2014 after being accused of child abuse inside of the offices of the Belady Foundation for Street Children, an organization founded by Hijazi and her husband that operates in Egypt.
    After a police raid on May 1, 2014, Egyptian authorities arrested eight people on charges of engaging in human trafficking, kidnapping, sexual exploitation using children in anti-government protests and operating an unlicensed organization.
    During the raid, which occurred without a legal warrant, police confiscated laptops and detained Hijazi, Hassanein and other employees under the child abuse charges.


    The arrest was part of a clampdown by the government on civil society. Prosecutors in the country didn’t provide much evidence to support the claims, though, and many human rights workers and officials from the U.S. said they were blatantly false. In fact, the state’s very own forensic report concluded that there was no evidence to suggest that any of the children in their care was sexually abused.
    The eight people were arrested after an Egyptian man said his runaway son, Gomaa, was held at the foundation without his consent, but the boy was later found at a different place.
    About one month before the police raid, Gomaa and two other children were guests with Hijazi on an Egyptian TV show called “Sitt al-Husn.” The children on the show told stories about how Hijazi’s organization changed their lives for the better.

    But when Gomaa was interviewed by authorities as part of the child abuse investigation, he switched courses and claimed that he and others juveniles were paid by the foundation to disobey the police and military, adding that he was forced to take part in many sexual abuses. Watch the Gomaa’s interview in the video below.




    Other interviews of juvenile subjects in the case gave contradicting statements to police about the alleged abuse, and one of them even wrote a letter to Hijazi while she was in jail apologizing for causing any stress.
    The defendants in the case were held in a Cairo prison and were reportedly abused while they were being held.

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    3. The Trial For the Charges Had Been Delayed 7 Times For No Conclusive Reason

    Prosecutors in the case certainly dragged their feet when pursuing the charges against the defendants. Hijazi, her husband and the other co-defendants were held beyond the two-year limit “for pretrial and provisional detention under Egyptian law,” Human Rights Watch wrote.


    A court in Cairo postponed its verdict March 23, giving no reason for doing so. Prior to that, hearings in the case had been delayed seven times for various reasons, leaving the defendants in jail to wait.
    Joe Stork, the deputy Middle East director for Human Rights Watch, said that Hijazi and the other defendants had been treated unfairly, including not being able to meet with their attorneys.
    The case of Aya Hijazi and her co-defendants has been nothing less than a travesty of justice. Defendants have been unable to meet privately with lawyers, hearings have been repeatedly adjourned for long periods, while the court has routinely rejected, without explanation, numerous requests for release on bail, resulting in what appears to amount to arbitrary detention.
    Human Rights Watch argued that the court proceedings violated their right to prepare a defense and fully understand the case that was to be tried against them.



    3. The Charges Were Dismissed After Trump Met With Egypt’s President

    The lengthy process of a starting a trial on the child abuse claims led to many U.S. officials pressing for the release of the wdefendants.
    President Barack Obama‘s administration had previously tried to push Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to release the eight defendants, but to no avail.
    Many members of congress pushed for their release as well, especially Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (Virginia). When she was a candidate for president, Hillary Clinton pushed for their release in a meeting with el-Sisi, but again he didn’t seem to budge.


    When el-Sisi visited the White House in early April, Trump didn’t publicly mention pressuring him for their release, but a senior White House official told Fox News ahead of the meeting that Hijazi’s case would be one of the topics.
    Watch Trump meeting with el-Sisi in the Oval Office, with the Egyptian president sitting on the same chair that Hijazi would be welcomed to a few weeks later, in the video below.


    Hijazi and the other seven defendants in the case were acquitted on the charges on the charges April 16 and free to return home after being released from prison.
    Beyer said in a statement after the case was dismissed that he was disappointed it took three unnecessary years to do so, but was encouraged that they finally got their freedom back.
    This wonderful news was a long time coming. I feel a deep sense of joy and relief for Aya, her husband, their colleagues at Belady who were imprisoned, Aya’s mother Naglaa, and her sister Alaa and brother Basel. I offer my humble thanks and congratulations today to them and to her many friends who worked so hard to raise the profile of this case and pressure the Egyptian government to gain her freedom.

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    think i posted a story about these people already - ngo employees involved in child trafficking (charged with)

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

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    The arrest was part of a clampdown by the government on civil society. Prosecutors in the country didn’t provide much evidence to support the claims, though, and many human rights workers and officials from the U.S. said they were blatantly false.
    "Blatantly false," just like the known facts against Comet Ping Pong Pizza.

    Dozens of NGOs do work in Egypt, and haven't been "clamped down on." Why this one? Why the specific charges of trafficking and sexual abuse?

    I'd say we need someone to thoroughly investigate this, but they might end up in a cage and then dead like Edgar Steele, after he dared to investigate similar "humanitarian" networks in Ukraine.
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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    This alleged "heroine" has very sparse biographical data, including no page at Wikipedia. Odd.

    I'm finding "interesting" material from the Arabic press, though.

    People can call these boys liars (while lionizing the fake "humanitarian"), but here are victims speaking about their experiences (in Arabic):







    What motivation would these boys have to turn on their alleged "rescuers"?


    https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/201...fficking-case/

    https://iia1.files.wordpress.com/201...world-news.pdf

    Rabat – A Moroccan beauty queen is believed to be involved in one of the biggest child pornography and human trafficking schemes in Egypt according to Egyptian media outlets.

    The unidentified Moroccan beauty queen has reportedly been accused of funding a fake association that exploits homeless children in the production of child pornography, as well as using them as human shields in several political demonstrations and conflicts with the police.

    According to Egypt’s Yaoum7, the fake association that goes by the name “Biladi” or my country was co-founded by an American woman and her husband. The American couple are said to have stripped over 20 children and videotaped them naked in a minor [i.e., child -ct] pornographic production.

    On Sunday, the Egyptian police detained the associations’ main financier for investigation. “She admitted to having received funds from a Moroccan beauty queen,” Yaoum7 reported.

    The Associations’ financier said that she had received moral and financial support from the Moroccan beauty queen, without revealing her name or the details.

    The Association’s co-founders, Aya Hijazi, 27, and her husband Mohamed Hassanine, 26, admitted to detaining over 20 homeless children in their Cairo-based house.

    The US couple stated during the investigations that they had forced the children to have sex with each other in order to record them in a pornographic film production.
    The night has come upon us, and we have but two choices: to fear it, or to face it bravely while looking to the Light that cannot be overcome. John 8:12

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    Good nose crimethink. Seems like she might be in a pedo ring.

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    Re: Trump successfully negotiates the release of American prisoner in Egypt

    Quote Originally Posted by vacuum View Post
    Good nose crimethink. Seems like she might be in a pedo ring.
    Nothing "makes sense" about her and her "foundation." This is a real whopper...trying to push her to Mother Teresa sainthood:

    Couple Spend Their Wedding Money on Street Children, End up in an Egyptian Prison

    https://egyptianstreets.com/2016/02/...yptian-prison/

    There is an ocean of noise about her "victimhood," which, along with the fact most real sources are in Arabic, make it very difficult to ferret out the Truth.

    Creating two-person "foundations" is a routine scam technique. As well as a shield to obfuscate one's real purpose.

    I'll keep an eye out for more.
    The night has come upon us, and we have but two choices: to fear it, or to face it bravely while looking to the Light that cannot be overcome. John 8:12

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