The Italian senate voted to grant him Italian citizenship when he was in imprisonned. Mohamed al-Baqer, the lawyer of Alaa Abdel Fattah, Egypt's most notorious political prisoner was also pardoned Egypt's Presidential Pardon Committee announced. In Italy, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani welcomed el-Sissi's decision to pardon Zaki. Jubilation also resounded from the ranks of Italian opposition lawmakers following the pardon news. Egypt has pardoned dozens of detainees in the past several months, after its human rights record came under international scrutiny when it hosted the U.N. climate change summit in November.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 20, 2023 13:49 UTC