Dancing with the devil: how the EU is complicit in Egypt's brutal regime
URL copied to clipboard In February 2020, as he arrived back in Cairo to visit family, Patrick Zaky, a Masters student at Bologna University, was arrested by Egyptian authorities. Zaky, a researcher of gender rights for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), was detained on charges including “spreading false news” and “an incitement to protest”. His lawyer, Wael Ghally, claimed he was “beaten and tortured”. Ten months on, he is still being held in prison, awaiting his pre-trial hearing. Then, after a meeting with 13 European ambassadors and diplomats on the state ...
Source: opendemocracy.net