On February 8, 2020, the Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaky, just landed to cairo, he came arrested at the airport for “Subversive propaganda and terrorism”. Almost two years have passed since then – dotted around the world by continuous demonstrations in support of Zaky – but now, at the end of the hearing held in Mansoura, the good news has finally arrived: Patrick he will be released pending the next hearing to be held on February 1st. Hoda Nasrallah |, Zaky’s attorney, presented claims to the judge. Like access to the Facebook texts that the accusation accuses the student of the University of Bologna and the security videos of the airport the night he was stopped. The judge accepted them and postponed the trial.
Patrick was in court at the time of the sentence, I wear the typical white uniform of Egyptian prisoners, with no obvious signs of the gods mistreatment that he would have suffered in recent days. In front of him his sister Marise, his father and for the first time in months too mom, who until now had preferred not to see his son in his cell on charges of having spread news harmful to the Egyptian state.
The release order for Zaky is a glimmer of light but not the end of a nightmare which has been going on for twenty-two months now: «Patrick will be released from prison but it is important to underline that the charges against him have not lapsed: this means that at the hearing on February 1st they could decide to put him in pre-trial detention again or, worse, to sentence him. In addition, the judge imposed a ban on him from leaving the country ”. So told the Dire Amr Abdelwahab agency, activist of the Patrick Libero movement.
Patrick in February 2020 had arrived in Cairo from Bologna, where he was studying and working as researchers at the university, to spend a few days with his family. At the time of the arrest, the charges had not been disclosed. Only after the interrogation was it known that he was accused of subversive propaganda and terrorism through some Facebook posts. So in September 2021 it was also accused for a 2019 written article in defense of the Coptic Christian minority. In the article published on the website, Daraj denounced the persecutions in Egypt of the Copts, a minority to which he belongs, through a diary. “We don’t know when this nightmare will end”Patrick’s sister Marise told La7 last February. The nightmare is not over but the researcher, awaiting the next hearing, will finally be released from prison today or in the next few days.
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