Peaceful gathering in memory of Sarah Hegazi in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Malta!
SARAH HEGAZI (1989-2020)
Sarah Hegazi was an Egyptian lesbian activist. On September 22, 2017, Sarah Hegazi attended a concert for Mashrou’ Leila whose lead singer, Hamed Sinno, is openly gay. She was arrested along with a group of others for waving a rainbow flag in support of LGBT rights. Her arrest coincided with Egypt’s zero-tolerance crackdown response to end public support for LGBT rights in the country. She recalled being jailed, beaten and abused by inmates for three months. She had claimed asylum and was living in Canada while undergoing PTSD from the prison torture experience she underwent in Egypt. She died by suicide on June 14, 2020.
Sarah’s last words:
“الى اخوتي حاولت النجاة وفشلت، سامحوني
الى اصدقائي
التجربة قاسية وانا اضعف من ان اقوامها، سامحوني
الى العالم
لقد كنت قاسيا الى حد عظيم ولكني اسامح ”
سارة حجازي
To my siblings,
I have tried to find salvation and I failed; forgive me.
To my friends,
The journey was cruel and I am too weak to resist; forgive me.
To the world,
You were cruel to a great extent; but I forgive.”
– Sarah Higazi
“السما احلى من الأرض، وأنا عاوزه السما مش الأرض
The sky is sweeter than the earth, and I need the sky not the earth.”
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