A new hearing on pre-trial detention is scheduled for today in Cairo for Patrick George Zaki, the 29-year-old student of the University of Bologna detained for over a year in Egypt, in the Tora prison.
The lawyers will return to ask for his immediate release.
The researcher, human rights activist, who was following a European master's degree in Bologna, is accused, among other things, of subversive propaganda and incitement to terrorism on the basis of some posts on Facebook from an account that according to his lawyers is not his own.
He faces 25 years in prison.
"As always, the feelings on the day of the hearing are contrasted - Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International Italia told ANSA -. There is the hope that 14 months of detention will be enough to judge Patrick innocent. There is the feeling of an unpredictability of the decisions by the Egyptian judiciary and there is the expectation, as always, to know the outcome which, as often happens, will not be contemporary at the end of the hearing. Hope is always alive ".