Editor’s update: On 26 August 2020, Yaser Abdel Said was arrested by the FBI and US authorities in North Texas. The article’s contents below have not been updated to reflect this. To read more about the arrest, click here. “Oh my God, I’m dying,” were 17-year-old Sarah Said’s last words, recorded in a harrowing 911 call released by Irving Police in Texas, United States of America. After a series of death threats and allegations of physical and sexual abuse, on New Year’s Day in 2008, Sarah Said and her sister Amina Said were found brutally murdered in their father’s taxi in Texas. Twelve years later, Egyptian-born Yaser Abdel Said, the main suspect in the double homicide, remains a free man, nowhere to be found. However, a social media campaign shedding light on the crime aims to mobilize the Egyptian public in the search for Sarah and Amina’s killer, who is believed to be in Egypt. Started by women’s rights activist Merhan Keller, the social media campaign ‘Amina and Sarah’ (أمينة وسارة) has re-ignited hopes that Yaser will finally face justice. Why Egyptians should care about a crime in America that…
Amina and Sarah Were Murdered by Their Egyptian-American Father. 12 Years Later, There’s Hope for Justice
August 4, 2020
