Zaki at trial today, the sentence will not be appealable

Patrick Zaki on trial. The first hearing, which takes place in Mansoura, Egypt, in the second section of the emergency court for state security, arrives today after a year and seven months of preventive detention of the student. The sentence, however, “does not provide for the right of appeal,” Lubna Darwish, head of the women’s rights and gender defense department of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (Eipr), the Egyptian NGO, told Aki-Adnkronos International with which the student of the Alma Mater University of Bologna collaborated. Zaki is challenged with a 2019 written in defense of the Coptic minority, of which he belongs. “Unfortunately, this is the case in the emergency courts for state security”, continues Darwish, referring to the non-appeal of the sentence and stressing that Zaki, on the basis of the accusations brought against him, “risks up to 5 years in prison”. “We hoped that he would be released because the accusations are false and the arrest report has been falsified. But now we face his trial on the basis of an article he wrote!”, Added the representative of the EIPR. According to the NGO, Zaki was indicted on the basis of articles 80 and 102 (bis) of the penal code for an article in which he recounted his life as a Coptic Christian in Egypt. urgent government intervention on the case. “Unfortunately, the concerns and fears were well founded. Patrick’s torture continues, today an escalation that finds us even more determined to fight alongside this boy, an Italian citizen, prisoner and kidnapped in a nightmare”. So Filippo Sensi of the Democratic Party on Twitter. ”After one year and seven months of illegal detention, abuse and torture, the first hearing of the trial against Patrick Zaki will take place tomorrow. Any aspect of this affair is shivering. And the deafening silence of the Draghi government only makes the situation worse. Above all because we continue to sell armaments to the Al-Sisi regime “, the national secretary of the Italian Left Nicola Fratoianni said yesterday.” I hope that the Italian government – concludes the member of the left opposition – will wake up from its guilty sleep intervene “.” After 19 months of terrible pre-trial detention, Patrick #Zaki will be tried in a section that does not provide for the right of appeal. A human drama that cannot leave us indifferent. Parliament has committed the government: we cannot abandon him “, he writes on Twitter Simona Malpezzi, president of the senators of the Democratic Party. ‘The Italian government follows up the will of the Senate and the Chamber and takes action for the conferral of Italian citizenship on Zaki. Never as at this moment, in the hours of the start of a process that is a disgrace to human rights, the whole Italian community must rally around Zaki and increase the pressure for his release “. Thus Senator Francesco Verducci, vice president of the Culture Commission and first signatory of the motion approved by the Senate which commits the Government for Italian citizenship to the young student and researcher.