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March 02, 2020 "I'm fine, no matter how well you can feel in prison. I just wish this would end and I'd like to go back to my studies. Until then, I want to get my books back and the freedom to use the bathroom." These are the words that come to us from Patrick George Zaki directly from the public prison of Mansura, in Egypt, where the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna arrested in Cairo on February 7 was transferred a week ago and where he was initially prevented from meet his lawyers and family.

After the Prosecutor's Office approved the request for an exceptional visit, Patrick's parents were able to visit him yesterday: they said he looked well, despite being allowed to use the bathroom only once a day.

Above all, Patrick is worried about the prolongation of his detention and has expressed the desire for a quick release in order to resume studying, since the "Gemma" master of the University of Bologna, to which he is enrolled, has already started for two weeks. . Mansura prison also prevented him from keeping the books he had before he was transferred from the Talkha police station, and so Patrick is unable to recover the material he is missing. "

We reiterate our main requests: the immediate release of Patrick and the fall of all the charges against him, so that he can return to university to complete his master's degree - his classmates write on the campaign's Facebook page Patrick free- Until Patrick's release, we ask that Mansura prison respect the prison regulations, allowing Patrick to read and study and granting him all the hours of physical activity allowed, that is, one hour in the morning and one in the evening ".