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عربي

Sarah Hegazi

Sarah Hegazi

(1989 - Present)

🇪🇬 Egypt

Sarah Hegazi (Arabic: سارة حجازي; 1 October 1989 – 14 June 2020), also spelled Hegazy or Higazy, was an Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist. She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in Egypt for three months after flying a rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in 2017 in Cairo. Hegazi, who lived with PTSD resulting from the prison torture she had experienced in Egypt, was granted asylum in Canada, living there until her suicide. Early life and education Hegazi was born on 1 O...

Biography was retrieved from Wikipedia and was last updated on June 2024.

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