- ROMA, 21 GIU - A trial against the Egyptian researcher
Patrick Zaki, who had been at Italy's University of Bologna
prior to being arrested by the Egyptian authorities on returning
to his home country, has been adjourned to September 27.
Zaki told ANSA the news after the latest hearing on Tuesday
morning in the Egyptian city of Mansoura.
"Today they took only my ID card. They let me out and told me
to wait. I was there for two hours without having any idea of
what was happened. Then they told me that [the hearing] had been
postponed to September 27," Zaki said in speaking to journalists
in front of the Mansoura Palace of Justice.
"It has now been 28 months, and this will rise to 31, that
Patrick Zaki has been trapped in a mechanism of arbitrary
justice that, from one postponement to another, continues to
deprive him of his full freedom. This is an exorbitant period, a
period of time that in and of itself is a punishment since
Patrick is accused of a crime with an Orwellian sound to it: the
'spread of fake news', for having written the truth," the head
of the Italian branch of Amnesty International Riccardo Noury
told ANSA.
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