Patrick Zaki previously spent 22 months in pre-trial detention after writing an article about the plight of Egypt’s Christians. An Egyptian court has sentenced Patrick Zaki, a rights researcher who had been studying in Italy and was accused of spreading false news, to three years in jail, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said. 🔴 EIPR researcher #Patrick_Zaki sentenced to …
Zaki, who was arrested in Cairo in February 2020, will still have to face trial next year for ‘spreading fake news’. An Egyptian court ordered the release pending trial of jailed researcher Patrick George Zaki, a move welcomed by human rights defenders and the prime minister of Italy where he had been studying. Patrick Zaki is no longer in prison.” …
CAIRO — An Egyptian court extended the detention of an activist and researcher who previously worked for one of the country’s most prominent rights groups, the group said on Monday. In Italy, where Zaki was studying, the head of the Democratic Party, the government’s junior coalition partner, slammed Monday’s decision by the court in Egypt as “the latest unjust and …
