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April 28, 2020 Still another 7 days postponement for the hearing in which the pre-trial detention of Patrick George Zaky, the Egyptian student of the University of Bologna in prison in Cairo on charges of subversive propaganda must be established.

This was communicated by one of his lawyers, Hoda Nasrallah, adding that this postponement was also due to the coronavirus and concerned all the other cases today under examination by the judge.

The Postponements 
It is therefore assumed that Patrick, as on other occasions, was not brought to the Public Prosecutor's Office remaining in the "investigations" section of the Tora prison, on the south-eastern outskirts of Cairo.
The student has been detained since February 7 and a month later there was the second fortnightly renewal of the detention: since then, three times in March and three this month, most recently on the 21st, the hearing has always been postponed due to the pandemic by Covid-19.

The accusations 
Among the accusations against Patrick, based on a Facebook account that the defense considers managed by others, there are "spreading of false news", "incitement to protest" and "instigation to violence and terrorist crimes"

Covid in Egypt
Egypt has exceeded 4,780 cases with nearly 340 victims. In the country there has been an evening-night fire cover for a month, blocking the skies and the closure of the gathering places such as restaurants and mosques, where prayer will not be allowed even during the month of the Islamic holy fast of Ramadan that began on Friday.