"Despite official denials, Egyptian human rights groups denounce the spread of Covid-19 in the Tora prison", where Patrick George Zaky, Egyptian student of the University of Bologna, is imprisoned. Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International Italia, writes it on Twitter. "Meanwhile - he adds - 3000 prisoners have been released for Eid including thieves and at least one murderer but not Patrick Zaky and the others". "Rumors are multiplying that there have been cases of contagion from Covid-19 in at least two of four sections of Tora prison," Noury told ANSA.
"The authorities deny that an employee of Tora died from taking Covid inside the prison. They say he took him to a hospital where he is hospitalized for unrelated medical issues, but the feeling, on the contrary, of groups for human rights is that this employee Covid took him inside Tora and therefore possibly infected others. This - he underlines - does nothing but support the immediate request for activation of the Farnesina through the Italian ambassador in Cairo for a very quick release for humanitarian reasons of Patrick Zaky who, as is well known, is particularly at risk "because he is asthmatic. "If it is true that Covid is in Tora, he must not spend a moment longer and must be released immediately," he concludes.
Zaky: Amnesty, Covid cases in Tora prison
2020-06-03T21:52:05.278Z
3000 prisoners released including thieves and at least one murderer but not the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna (ANSA)