(ANSA) - BOLOGNA, 28 SEPTEMBER - "An abnormally long postponement of punishment". So to ANSA Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International in Italy, on the new postponement of the trial for Patrick George Zaki. "The judge - explains Noury - could have accepted the defense's request for a postponement as he did, but he could order a postponement in one or two weeks. Among other things, this date of the next hearing, December 7, is bitterly symbolic because it will mark the twenty-second month of arbitrary and illegal detention of Patrick and therefore a continuous suffering ".
"We have time ahead - he continues - to do something important, effective in relations between Italy and Egypt. The request we are making is that Italian diplomacy uses this time in the best possible way". (HANDLE).