"Of course 500 days in prison for a student who had just raised a sign asking for freedom for prisoners is a huge time, but this story teaches us that the pressures at some point pay off." So Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International Italy, comments to ANSA about the release of Mohamed Amashah, a citizen with dual US and Egyptian citizenship, detained without trial in Egypt, and renews the appeal to the Italian Government to press Cairo for the release of Patrick George Zaky.
American President Donald Trump, Noury continues, "has managed to release an Egyptian and American citizen. We hope that Giuseppe Conte, who boasts and claims excellent relations with Al Sisi, will be able to do much earlier to obtain the release of an Egyptian citizen and Bolognese honorarium ".
Zaky, a 29 year old Egyptian student enrolled in a master's degree at the University of Bologna, has been in prison in Egypt for opinion crimes for more than 150 days, since the beginning of February. The next hearing for the renewal of the detention or not, after exhausting postponements often without even the presence of lawyers, would be set for July 12th. In recent days, Egypt has announced a grace for 530 prisoners to decongest prisons and Amnesty asks that the Italian government put pressure on the Alma Mater student to benefit from it. A few days ago a letter was sent to the boy's family from prison: "I'm fine, I miss you, I'll be free", he wrote.
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