At the hearing at the Mansura Courthouse in Egypt on the Nile delta, the extension of another 15 days of pre-trial detention in prison was decided today in which it has been held since 8 February with accusations of subversive propaganda Patrick George Zaki, the 27-year-old Egyptian activist and researcher student at the University of Bologna. The next hearing is set for March 7. Her family's lawyer makes this known.
"I never wrote" Facebook posts for which they accuse me of subversive propaganda. Zaky said so, according to an informed source on the spot, in the courtroom at the Mansura Courthouse in which his prison term was extended by 15 days. When asked by the judge, "Is this your account?" Zaky replied "no".
"It is a cruel and unnecessary decision, because there is no possibility of polluting evidence or changing the course of investigations." Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International in Italy at ANSA, comments on the Egyptian court's decision to extend the preventive detention of Patrick George Zaky, the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna arrested in Cairo two weeks ago, by another 15 days. "The worst case scenario opens", says Noury, "the mobilization will be long".
The renewal of pre-trial detention in prison for another 15 days, to prolong the investigation into the Zaky case, is the "worst" scenario in the sense that these renewals will continue for months. "A bad and cruel decision - explains Noury - that will not stop the mobilization to ask for his release". "The appeal - he adds - is to remain all mobilized, to go on like this. Amnesty is studying new initiatives. We think that a medium-term campaign that can last even months opens before us. Everyone does his part up to At bottom".