The Dubliner has now spent 38 months in an Egyptian jail without a trial.

The trial of Ibrahim Halawa has been postponed for the 15th time since his arrest in August 2013. An adjournment means the trial is now pencilled in for November, having last been deferred in June. Ibrahim has been detained since he was arrested at protest for the ousted Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo in 2013. This is the letter he wrote after three years in prison. Halawa will be part of a mass trial of 500 people, a factor that is believed to have contributed to his continued imprisonment. “There is no credible evidence against Ibrahim, who faces and a mass trial alongside 493 other defendants. A mass trial simply cannot meet the standards required for a fair trial as defined under international human rights law,” The Journal quotes Colm O'Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, as saying. The 20-year-old Halawa claims he has been mistreated during his incarceration - he says he been stripped, beaten with a bar and also placed within solitary confinement. Ireland's government has asked for Halawa to be released by presidential decree, which allows foreign prisoners to complete their term in their home country.