Patrick Zaki: Egypt tries Christian rights activist on false news charge
A human rights activist who wrote about his experiences as a Coptic Christian in Egypt has gone on trial on the charge of spreading false news./ Patrick George Zaki is a researcher on gender issues for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR)./ He was arrested in February 2020 at Cairo airport upon his return from Italy, where he had been studying./ He denies the charge and local rights groups say he is being prosecuted simply for expressing his opinion./ President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government has carried out what ...
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