In an exclusive interview with PBS Newshour, Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American charity worker imprisoned in Cairo for three years, speaks about the harrowing ordeal and her experience meeting ...

Jailed Egyptian American Aya Hijazi who Trump boasted he freed from a Cairo prison is slammed for 'ungratefulness' to the country that rescued her after she lavished praise on Hamas and branded it ...

CAIRO -- The lawyer of Egyptian-American charity worker Aya Hijazi says she has been released from prison after nearly three years of detention. Taher Abol Nasr told The Associated Press she was ...

Why was she locked up? Egyptian authorities raided Hijazi's charity in May 2014, accusing her of "human trafficking, kidnapping, sexual exploitation and torture," according to the Chicago Tribune.

In May 2014, Aya Hijazi, a 29-year-old Egyptian-American humanitarian worker, was imprisoned in Egypt. For more than two years, she was held in what’s known as “pre-trial detention” before ...

Please try again later. President Trump meets with Aya Hijazi, a freed Egyptian American charity worker who was imprisoned in Cairo for three years. (Video: Taylor Turner/The Washington Post) ...

Aya Hijazi and her Egyptian husband were accused of child abuse, but human rights groups called the charges specious and prosecutors offered no proof. The couple were jailed for nearly three years.

Aya Hijazi and her husband Mohamed Hassanein, talk inside a holding cell. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters The Trump administration negotiated the release of a US citizen who was held in an Egyptian ...