Article by Kaya Purchase
On 7th February, 2020, Patrick George Zaki returned home to Egypt from Italy to visit his family. He was studying his Masters in Women and Gender Studies at Bologna University. Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, he was arrested, handcuffed and blindfolded. He was allegedly interrogated for seventeen hours before being taken to an undisclosed location where he was subjected to beatings and electric shocks. He was later transferred to a detention facility and has been in detention ever since, repeatedly being transferred to different facilities.