Amnesty Italia: “This new date means prolonging the situation of limbo, uncertainty and suffering for Patrick”
The trial of Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna, has been postponed to 6 April. Before today’s hearing – which lasted very little – about half an hour was held in the “cage of the accused”, as the Egyptian activist himself defined it. “I’m free now and that’s good,” he said. But the postponement of the hearing for more than two months “means prolonging this situation of limbo, uncertainty and suffering for Zaki – declares Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty Italia. It means delaying once again that appointment that Patrick dreams of with the city of Bologna. It is not good news ». Now that there is a fixed date, “these 2 months and 5 days – continues Noury - must not be allowed to pass in disinterest”.
“We hope that something good will happen on April 6, since I want to be back in Bologna as soon as possible,” says Zaki, who left the Mansura Palace of Justice. “I think they are trying to make time for the final decision; we’ll see what happens, ”he added, implicitly referring to the single judge and the other Egyptian officials. The delegation of foreign diplomats, including two Italians, unsuccessfully insisted on attending the hearing in the courtroom.
There are no particular details on the reason for this umpteenth postponement, “except, I imagine, the intent to prolong once again this judicial limbo that has lasted since February 2020”, concluded Noury.
Meanwhile, just today, the Capitoline Assembly granted honorary citizenship of Rome to Patrick Zaki thanks to a motion approved unanimously by the Capitoline Assembly. «Today could have been a decisive day for the trial of Patrick Zaki, but yet another postponement has arrived. We cannot afford to lower our attention right now, ”said Nella Converti, the dem councilor who illustrated the motion signed by the majority. “Recognizing honorary citizenship in Zaki, today even more so, is a political act in defense of the rights of all,” concluded Converti.
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