Patrick George Zaki is an Egyptian postgraduate student at the University of Bologna, Italy, who has been detained in Egypt since February 7, 2020.[1] Zaki is pursuing an Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Bologna. He also conducts research and advocacy on gender issues and human rights for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a human rights organization based in Cairo.[2]