The hearing on the prolongation of pre-trial detention for Patrick George Zaky, the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna, who had been in prison for over three months on charges of subversive propaganda, was held at the State Security Prosecutor's Office in Cairo. on the Internet. The hearing again took place behind closed doors due to the coronavirus emergency. An attorney, Hoda Nasrallah, reported it to Ansa, indicating that the outcome of the hearing will be communicated "perhaps Saturday", which this week falls in the middle of a long festive bridge for the end of Ramadan.
In also reporting that Patrick remained in Tora's Cairo prison and that he was not once brought to the Prosecutor's office again, Nasrallah added that he plans to continue his detention for another 15 days.
The student has been detained since February 7. A month later there had been a first extension of 15 days and then, three times in March and four last month, the hearings in the Prosecutor's Office were postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
