Egyptian Bologna university student
and rights activist Patrick George Zaky has been transferred
from the prison in Mansura to Tora Prison in Cairo, said one of
his attorneys, Walid Hassan, without specifying in which section
- that for common or political detainees - Zaky was placed.
Zaky was arrested in Egypt on charges of subversive
propaganda on Facebook on February 6.
The hearing to extend his pre-trial custody, scheduled thus
far for Saturday, will therefore take place in Cairo, Hassan
told ANSA by phone.
The 27-year-old's attorneys had complained about his
detention in Mansura, a city 2.5 hours (140 km) north of Cairo,
because although Zaky's family is originally from the town on
the Nile Delta and still has a house there, they now live in the
Egyptian capital.
It is currently unclear whether the hearing on the possible
15-day extension of Zaky's pre-trial custody will take place as
scheduled on Saturday or will be postponed to a different day,
Hassan said.
Zaky says he was tortured after his arrest and his case has
raised comparisons with Giulio Regeni, the Italian Cambridge
researcher into street unions tortured to death in Cairo in
early 2016.
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