ast Instagram post.Hegazi died in Toronto, where she had sought asylum in 2018 after her arrest for daring to raise the rainbow pride flag at a concert in Cairo in 2017.
The concert featured Mashrou' Leila - a gay-friendly Lebanese band whose lead singer, Hamed Sinno, is openly gay. She waved a rainbow flag, the symbol of pride used by queer and transgender people worldwide.The defiant gesture in a country where homosexuality can be punished by law, outraged many in the Egyptian establishment..