Zaki: family, Patrick to transfer to another prison

(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, NOV 06 – The maxi prison complex of Tora, in Cairo, is about to close and hence the transfer to another detention facility for Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna under arrest in Egypt from February 2020. This is what a post on social media by activists ‘Patrick Libero’ denounces, reporting what was reported by the researcher’s parents who today visited him in Tora.

Patrick himself, the activists explain, told parents that “he has been informed that the Tora prison facility is closing, which means that he will have to be transferred to another detention facility”. Activists stress that no official statements have yet been made on the matter, so it is not known “when and where” Patrick “will be transferred”, but there is concern that he may end up “in a prison with worse living conditions”.

“What we know – the activists write – is that it will not be transferred to the new prison complex in Wadi El Natroun, because the structure is only for prisoners and not for political prisoners”. There is also anxiety because in the first period in a new prison visits are not allowed, so Patrick “will be left without reassurance, perhaps food, clothing or basic necessities, until his family is allowed to visit him again”. (HANDLE).

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