An LGBTQ rights activist from Egypt who was arrested for raising a rainbow flag during a 2017 concert died by suicide on Sunday.
Al-Jazeera reports Sara Hegazy, 30, died at her home in Canada. Egyptian authorities in September 2017 arrested Hegazy after she raised a rainbow flag during a Cairo concert that featured Mashrou’Leila, a Lebanese rock band whose lead singer, Hamed Sinno, is openly gay.