Sarah Hegazi (Arabic: سارة حجازي; 1989 – 14 June 2020), also spelled Hegazy or Higazy, was an Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist.[1][2] She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in Egypt for three months[3] after flying a rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in 2017 in Cairo.[4] Hegazi lived with PTSD resulting from the prison torture she had experienced in Egypt.