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Bologna Uni student has been held in Egypt for over 1 year
19 Aprile 2021
ROME, APR 19 - The government on Monday will start
to verify the conditions for the granting of Italian
citizenship to Patrick Zaki , Foreign Affairs Undersecretary
Benedetto Della Vedova told Rainews24.
Zaki is an Egyptian Bologna University postgraduate student who
has been held in Egypt since February 7 last year on charges of disseminating false news and incitement to protest .
The Senate last week approved a motion calling on the government
to grant him Italian citizenship.
(ANSA) - ROME, APR 19 - The government on Monday will start
to verify the conditions for the granting of Italian
citizenship to Patrick Zaki , Foreign Affairs Undersecretary
Benedetto Della Vedova told Rainews24.
Zaki is an Egyptian Bologna University postgraduate student who
has been held in Egypt since February 7 last year on charges of disseminating false news and incitement to protest .
The Senate last week approved a motion calling on the government
to grant him Italian citizenship.
Della Vedova likened Zaki s case to the tragic affair of
Italian student Giulio Regeni, who was tortured to death in
Cairo in early 2016.
The parliamentary motion gives a commitment to the government,
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NGOs urge Egyptian Authorities to Release Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy
We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been arbitrarily detained since 1 February 2021 on bogus terrorism-related charges. The undersigned organizations further call on the authorities to ensure prompt, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigations into Ahmed Samir Santawy’s allegations of being subjected to enforced disappearance and ill-treatment by security forces following his arrest.
The undersigned organizations consider that Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher and master’s student of anthropology at the Vienna-based Central European University (CEU), is arbitrarily detained solely because of his academic work focusing on women s rights, including the history of reproductive rights in Egypt.
Senate OKs citizenship for Zaki
By 208 votes to nil, FdI abstains
14 Aprile 2021
ROME, APR 14 - The Senate on Wednesday approved a
motion to grant Italian citizenship to Patrick Zaki, an Egyptian
Bologna University postgraduate student held in Egypt since
February 7 last year on charges of disseminating false news
and inciting to protest .
The motion was approved by 2018 votes to nil with 33
abstentions.
The nationalist Brothers of Italy (FdI) party abstained.
The motion also urges the government to press Egyptian
authorities to free Zaki; to monitor his hearings and detention
conditions; and to act on a European level to safeguard human