Zaki: Legal, stay in jail

(ANSA) - CAIRO, 27 SEPT - Patrick George Zaki remains in jail, at least until 7 October.

This was reported by a legal representative, Hoda Nasrallah, without adding other details.

    "Postponement to October 7", the legal statement communicated to ANSA summarizing the outcome of the hearing held yesterday on the extension of the pre-trial detention for the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna detained in Egypt for subversive propaganda on Facebook. "We learned with pleasure that the the Italian Embassy in Cairo, on Wednesday, made a written intervention at the Foreign Ministry to remind that the diplomatic representation is carefully monitoring the case in the context of European monitoring and continues to follow the outcome of the hearings "confident to" resume physically attending the hearings as soon as the health situation "created by the coronavirus pandemic" will allow it, "a source of the 'Patrick Libero' solidarity campaign told ANSA before the announcement of the outcome of the hearing.

    According to what has been learned in Cairo, the embassy has involved other diplomatic representations of the most important European countries in the passage.

"Some time ago the same embassy had also written a letter to facilitate the delivery to Zaki, in prison, of study books that the family could then bring to him", the source said.

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