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Patrick Zaki, still no sentence: hearing adjourned to 9 May

2023-02-28T11:40:33.505Z


On trial in Egypt for spreading false news, he risks 5 years in prison (ANSA) The hearing in the trial of Patrick Zaki, who is on trial in Egypt for spreading false news through an article, has again been adjourned to May 9, informed sources told ANSA. The researcher and human rights activist, on the loose since 8 December 2021 after 22 months in pre-trial detention on more serious charges related to ten posts on Facebook but informally shelved, is on trial in a State Secu


The hearing in the trial of Patrick Zaki, who is on trial in Egypt for spreading false news through an article, has again been adjourned to May 9, informed sources told ANSA.

The researcher and human rights activist, on the loose since 8 December 2021 after 22 months in pre-trial detention on more serious charges related to ten posts on Facebook but informally shelved, is on trial in a State Security Court for petty (or emergency) crimes of his hometown on the Nile Delta.

He risks five years in prison.

Patrick, in the trial ongoing since September 2021, is accused for a 2019 article in which he defended the Copts, Egypt's Christian minority, underlining the bloody persecutions of ISIS in previous years and two cases of social and legal discrimination .

Although free, the 31-year-old gender studies researcher has a travel ban and cannot leave Egypt.

The case, together with the search for those responsible for the torture to death of Giulio Regeni, has a declared political relevance in relations between Italy and Egypt.

In Mansura, as in all previous hearings for the extension of pre-trial detention and of the trial, diplomats from Italy and other countries should be brought as part of a European monitoring of processes relevant to the respect of human rights in Egypt.

Attendances take place regularly upon invitation by the Italian embassy in Cairo. 

"Let's hope it's the last," Patrick Zaki wrote on Facebook today.

Source: ansa

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