Egypt’s top prosecutor denies detained activist was tortured

Egypt’s chief prosecutor has actually rejected accusations that the authorities tortured a detained human rights activist and scientist throughout interrogations.

Cops detained Patrick George Zaki, an Egyptian student at the University of Bologna in Italy, after landing in Cairo previously this month for what was expected to be a short go to home.

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Zaki informed his attorneys he has actually been beaten, subjected to electrical shocks, questioned and threatened about his work and advocacy, according to The Egyptian Effort for Personal Rights, a Cairo-based human rights group that formerly used him as a gender rights scientist.

The scientist’s attorney Huda Nasrallah likewise informed The Associated Press news company that Zaki duplicated his abuse accusations on Saturday throughout a court hearing to appeal versus his detention. The court declined the appeal.  Zaki is being held while prosecutors examine claims of sharing false news and requiring unauthorised demonstrations, to name a few accusations.

However in a two-page declaration on Sunday, the office of General Prosecutor Hamada el-Sawy stated Zaki did not report that he was “harmed or violated during his arrest or detention” when he talked to the public prosecution on February 8, the day after his arrest.

“The public prosecution also did not observe any visible injuries that could be useful to the investigations, and that the defendant responded denying the existence of any injuries to his body,” the declaration checked out.

As proof in the event versus Zaki, Egypt’s national security company offered 10 pages printed from a Facebook account bring the name Patrick George Zaki. The declaration explained it as “inflammatory material against the state institutions and figures”.

It stated Zaki rejected the claims versus him, which the prosecutor’s office purchased him to stay in custody pending more examinations.

Egypt disallowed all unauthorised demonstrations in 2013, months after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, then defence minister, led the military’s elimination of the nation’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, following mass demonstrations.

Zaki’s case has actually triggered alarm amongst human rights groups and has actually likewise rattled Italy  amidst worries of a repeat of the case of killed Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni.

Regeni’s body was discovered on a roadside on the borders of Cairo in 2016 revealing substantial indications of abuse.

After 4 years of examination, nobody has actually been jailed or charged over the killing of the 28- year-old, regardless of months of assumed cooperation in between Italian and egyptianprosecutors Italy is still pushing Egypt to accelerate the examination.

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