The story of Patrick Zaki is infamous. A thirty-year-old boy, who was attending a Masters degree at the University of Bologna, part of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, based in Cairo, was arrested on his return to Egypt at four o'clock in the morning, from the secret services.
In addition to the usual charges of circumstance, such as a threat to national security, he is accused of being active abroad to make a thesis on homosexuality.
On April 17 it will be a year and two months that Patrick is in detention and his lawyer denounces torture for 17 consecutive hours with blows to the stomach, back and electric shocks inflicted by the Egyptian security forces, which preventive detention, due to the pandemic, can extend from time to time for another 45 days.
The Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) and similar university networks in other European countries have expressed solidarity with Zaki and launched appeals for his release.
On 18 December the European Parliament expressed itself with a very harsh resolution against the growing repression, at the hands of the state authorities and the Egyptian security forces, against fundamental rights and human rights defenders, calling for the boy's immediate release.
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The discussion in the Senate for the immediate granting of Italian citizenship to Patrick Zaki will begin today, April 14, and the sensational thing is that Liliana Segre will go to the Chamber to vote on the motion.
The 90-year-old senator for life had suspended her attendance at Palazzo Madama due to the health emergency. It had exceptionally decided to participate in the proceedings of the Chamber on January 19 last year to vote for confidence in the Conte 2 government and was greeted by applause from almost the entire chamber.
“Iconic voice” of freedom, Segre, who could be Patrick's grandmother, amazes once again for her natural ability to give substance to words, to set an example that values must follow concrete facts.
A style that is a continuous lesson of love for the younger generations.
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