Who is Aya Hijazi, the American freed from jail in Egypt?

BEIRUT — During nearly three years spent shuttling between an Egyptian jail and a Cairo courtroom cage in a case dismissed by human rights groups as “bizarre,” Aya Hijazi's American citizenship did not seem to count for much. She was a dual national at a time when Egypt was gripped by the widest-ranging crackdown in its modern history. […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/04/21/who-is-aya-hijazi-the-american-freed-from-jail-in-egypt/