Overview
- The Court of Appeal of Caltanissetta upheld a lower court order that prevents removal and rejected the State Attorney's complaint.
- Judges said Shahin must be treated as an asylum seeker, which bars repatriation until his protection claim is decided.
- Shahin was arrested in November after an Interior Ministry expulsion decree linked to remarks the government deemed extremely radical about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
- He was held in the Caltanissetta repatriation center until the Turin Court of Appeal ordered his release, finding no grounds for detention.
- Reporting notes that return to Egypt could expose him to persecution or torture, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has publicly criticized the judicial decisions.