Overview

• Andrea Usala, 25, and Vittoria Antonioli Arduini, 21, were detained at Cairo airport on June 12 as they traveled from Torino to join the Global March to Gaza.
• Italian authorities confirmed that Antonioli Arduini has been repatriated, but Usala’s current status remains unclear despite his arrival in Cairo.
• The pair had been part of a tent protest in Piazza Castello since May 19 to draw attention to severe shortages of food and medicine in Gaza.
• Organizers say the march’s goal is to pressure the Egyptian government to open the Rafah border crossing for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
• Hundreds of other activists from Europe, Tunisia and Algeria remain stranded at the airport under heightened security restrictions.