The maxi prison complex of Tora, in Cairo, is about to close and hence the transfer to another detention facility for Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna under arrest in Egypt since February 2020. This is what a post denounces. on the social networks of the activists ‘Patrick Libero’ reporting what was reported by the parents of the researcher who today visited him in Tora.
Patrick himself, the activists explain, told parents that “he has been informed that the Tora prison facility is closing, which means that he will have to be transferred to another detention facility”. Activists stress that no official statements have yet been made on the matter, so it is not known “when and where” Patrick “will be transferred”, but there is concern that he may end up “in a prison with worse living conditions”. “What we know – the activists write – is that it will not be transferred to the new prison complex in Wadi El Natroun, because the structure is only for prisoners and not for political prisoners”.
There is also anxiety because in the first period in a new prison visits are not allowed, so Patrick “will be left without reassurance, perhaps food, clothes or basic necessities, until his family is allowed to visit him again”.
In the post, activists say they are waiting for an official statement “to know what this will mean for Patrick, but the truth is that there will probably be no official statement and we will hear by chance that the prison is closed or his family will visit him. only to realize that he has been transferred and in both cases his lawyers will have to look for him in the prison records to find out where they have transferred him because no one notifies the families. Let’s hope this doesn’t put him in even worse circumstances than he has been through in the last year and 9 months “