'Italian sentenced to life imprisonment in Egypt'

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 21 - A young man from Pescara, Giacomo Passeri, arrested about a year ago in Egypt for drug possession, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Cairo Wednesday, his brother said.
    "We are still in shock: they have informed us that my brother has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with 25 years to serve in Egypt", said Andrea Passeri.
    In recent months Passeri's family had raised the alarm about his condition in jail.
    He had also started a hunger strike to protest about the treatment he was receiving and the length of his trial. (ANSA).