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1./ On #HumanRights day we should remember Patrick Zaky #PatrickZaky the Egyptian rights campaigner who was arrested and tortured when he went back for a holiday to Egypt from Italy in Feb 2020. He's still in prison. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/egyptian…
2./ Patrick was studying for a masters in "LGBT and gender studies" in Bologna. While there he bravely spoke out about Egypt's failure to prosecute the men who tortured and brutally murdered an Italian doctoral student called Guilio Regeni in 2016 theguardian.com/world/2020/feb…
3./ Today -appropriately- the Italian authorities charged 4 members of Egypt's national security agency with Guilio's murder. Guilio was researching labour unions. An estimated 2,723 people have been 'forcibly disappeared' in Egypt since 2015. theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
