As always his friends, the activists who have been fighting for his release for over a year and a half hoped for it. “There is also the coincidence of an important holiday of the Coptic religious community that we hope will induce the judge to get his hands on his conscience,” Riccardo Noury, voice of Amnesty, said at the end of today’s hearing. It did not go like this: Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian student activist for human rights and enrolled at the University of Bologna, remains in prison.
Patrick Zaki in prison for a year and a half. The friend: “I can’t wait for it to return to our normal lives”
by Ilaria Venturi
Pre-trial detention in Tora prison, just outside Cairo, has been renewed. His lawyer, Hoda Nasrallah, said so without being able to specify for how many days: this will be notified tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, added the lawyer.
Chess games, the hobby of carving and Mahfouz’s books: Patrick Zaky’s prisons
by Francesca Caferri
