The participation in the initiative of Amnesty International Italia, Festival of Human Rights and Article21 of a kite for Patrick Zaky, who will fly Saturday 12 to Cervia, to symbolically request the release of the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna arrested seven months ago in Egypt, is growing and since then in prison.
The Municipality of Bologna and the National Federation of the Italian Press join the sponsorships granted to the initiative, to which the People publishing house, Libera - Emilia-Romagna, the Naples Human Rights Film Festival, Pressenza Italia have also joined. and the Imbavagliati Civil Journalism Festival.
And today Amnesty unveils the image that will be on the kite built by the Cervia Volante Association.
Created by the artist Gianluca Costantini, the drawing shows the activist's face wrapped in barbed wire.
"Seven months have passed since Patrick Zaky was imprisoned in Egypt - recalls Amnesty - Very few visits allowed, the letters sent and received by the Egyptian student were censored. He is accused of inciting protest and terrorism, but in reality he pays the price of his human rights activism ".
The kite for Zaky is part of the intense mobilization in Italy - where Patrick was studying - for his release.
"It was born after learning of the Egyptian government's ban on flying kites - explains Amnesty - yet another freedom denied in a state where a state of emergency has returned to force since 2017 and where arrests, convictions, enforced disappearances and torture are common practice ".
Before the kite flight, a meeting on the human rights situation in Egypt will take place at 10.30 at Bagno Sabrina.
Among the speeches, a video message from Bahey El Din Hassan, founder of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, recently sentenced to 15 years by an Egyptian court.
