Patrick Zaki's pre-trial detention in Egypt has been extended by 45 days
.
His lawyer, Hoda Nasrallah, told ANSA, confirming rumors circulated yesterday.
This is the outcome of the latest hearing, held on Monday 1 February on the precautionary custody of the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna detained since 7 February last year on charges of subversive propaganda.
A further extension which, according to Amnesty International, demonstrates how in Egypt the rights of the suspect "are worth less than zero".
Patrick will spend at least another month and a half in the Tora prison complex in Cairo.
"In the end there is the confirmation of what was already known yesterday - Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International in Italy tells ANSA - because a judge had seen fit to notify the Egyptian press before the lawyer" by Patrick Zaki, but "now it's official: 45 days of detention, so
Patrick enters the second year of detention
. But in the second year the campaign of Amnesty International, of the University and of the Municipality of Bologna, of many other universities and local authorities, of journalists, to obtain the result that we will get sooner or later, namely the release of Patrick ".
In short, the Attorney General confirms the will to apply the draconian law of Egypt which allows up to two years of pre-trial detention: "The reasons for his incarceration always remain" and "the investigations continue".
All this,
the Farnesina
recalled yesterday
, despite the fact that, thanks to an Italian initiative, Patrick's judicial case is "the only one that is constantly monitored by a group of foreign countries" (at the hearing, in addition to an Italian diplomat, there were representatives of Denmark and the USA).
In recent days, the Foreign Ministry, through the Italian embassy in Cairo, has continued to "sensitize" the Egyptian authorities "in order to facilitate the prompt release" of the 29-year-old student.
"We are in a paradoxical situation in which judges, prosecutors and other representatives of the Egyptian judiciary communicate the outcome" of the hearing "to all but the lawyer", Noury reported to ANSA.
This story shows "once again that in Egypt the procedures, rights and respect for the dignity of detainees are worth less than zero", he added.