Patrick Zaki was detained last year and still faces charges of ‘spreading false news’

An Egyptian court has ordered the release of researcher Patrick Zaki, whose detention in February last year sparked international condemnation, particularly in Italy where he had been studying, his family said.

“I’m jumping for joy!” his mother Hala Sobhi told AFP. “We’re now on our way to the police station in Mansoura,” a city in Egypt’s Nile Delta, where Zaki is from.

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