Egypt - Giulio Regeni, 28, murdered, Cambridge PhD student, Cairo, 25 Jan 2016 *arrests*
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Egyptian State television air 'leaked video' of Giulio speaking to a representative of the street vendors union
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38729358
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38729358
Feature: Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/...graduate-student-tortured-murdered-egypt.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/...graduate-student-tortured-murdered-egypt.html
May 6 2019
Cambridge student 'tortured to death for being British spy'
"A Cambridge University student who was tortured to death in Egypt was murdered because he was suspected of being a British spy, according to a report in an Italian newspaper.
Giulio Regeni, an Italian man who was 28 at the time of his death, went missing in January 2016 before his body was discovered more than a week later at roadside in Cairo.
His body showed signs of torture, having suffered broken bones and shattered teeth, and letters had been carved into his skin.
Mr Regeni’s family believe he was killed by Egypt’s security services because he was researching labour unions which had opposed president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as part of his PhD at Cambridge University‘s Girton College.
Now a new witness has come forward and told Mr Regeni’s family he overheard an Egyptian intelligence agent speaking about “the Italian guy” and saying the student had been beaten because he was thought to be a British spy."
Cambridge student 'tortured to death for being British spy'
"A Cambridge University student who was tortured to death in Egypt was murdered because he was suspected of being a British spy, according to a report in an Italian newspaper.
Giulio Regeni, an Italian man who was 28 at the time of his death, went missing in January 2016 before his body was discovered more than a week later at roadside in Cairo.
His body showed signs of torture, having suffered broken bones and shattered teeth, and letters had been carved into his skin.
Mr Regeni’s family believe he was killed by Egypt’s security services because he was researching labour unions which had opposed president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as part of his PhD at Cambridge University‘s Girton College.
Now a new witness has come forward and told Mr Regeni’s family he overheard an Egyptian intelligence agent speaking about “the Italian guy” and saying the student had been beaten because he was thought to be a British spy."
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Witness claims seeing Giulio Regeni in Cairo police station before death
A man who claims to have witnessed the arrest of Giulio Regeni has told the Guardian how he heard and saw the Cambridge PhD student inside a police station in Cairo before he was found dead by a roadside.
The witness, who is regarded as credible by investigators in Rome, said the security officials alleged to have detained the Italian behaved as if they were above the law. “Those people that took Giulio were different,” he said. “Everyone is afraid of [Egypt’s] National Security Agency.”
He also recounted exchanges between Egyptian security officers, apparently suggesting they tampered with Regeni’s mobile phone in order to hinder an investigation by Italian authorities.
The testimony is among evidence obtained by Italian prosecutors in an effort to prove that four members of the Egyptian NSA were responsible for his disappearance.
A man who claims to have witnessed the arrest of Giulio Regeni has told the Guardian how he heard and saw the Cambridge PhD student inside a police station in Cairo before he was found dead by a roadside.
The witness, who is regarded as credible by investigators in Rome, said the security officials alleged to have detained the Italian behaved as if they were above the law. “Those people that took Giulio were different,” he said. “Everyone is afraid of [Egypt’s] National Security Agency.”
He also recounted exchanges between Egyptian security officers, apparently suggesting they tampered with Regeni’s mobile phone in order to hinder an investigation by Italian authorities.
The testimony is among evidence obtained by Italian prosecutors in an effort to prove that four members of the Egyptian NSA were responsible for his disappearance.
Italy demands response from Egypt over Regeni murder
26.01.2021
''Italy’s president said Monday that he is expecting a response from Egypt and solidarity from the EU over the unsolved 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo.
Sergio Mattarella said in his message on the fifth anniversary of Regeni’s disappearance that a picture of who was responsible for the crime emerged after an investigation by Italian prosecutors.
"We expect a full and sufficient response from the Egyptian authorities, as our diplomacy has relentlessly urged."
26.01.2021
''Italy’s president said Monday that he is expecting a response from Egypt and solidarity from the EU over the unsolved 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo.
Sergio Mattarella said in his message on the fifth anniversary of Regeni’s disappearance that a picture of who was responsible for the crime emerged after an investigation by Italian prosecutors.
"We expect a full and sufficient response from the Egyptian authorities, as our diplomacy has relentlessly urged."
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“Italy’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled that the trial of four Egyptian intelligence officers suspected of involvement in the 2016 murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni can proceed in absentia.”
www.middleeasteye.net
Italian court says Egyptian suspects in Regeni murder can be put on trial
Italian Constitutional Court rules four Egyptian intelligence officers can be tried in absentia over the 2016 killing
www.middleeasteye.net
Student killed after being mistaken for spy had every finger broken
Giulio Regeni's body also had multiple stab wounds on the soles of his feet, slices in his skin made from a sharp object suspected to be a razor blade and several cigarette burns.
''Cambridge student, 28, tortured to death after he was mistaken for a spy had legs, arms, seven ribs and every finger broken, severe burns and was slashed all over his body with a razor 'by Egyptian security officers'
- Giulio Regeni, 28, died after his neck was twisted or struck during an attack
- He was allegedly taken by Egyptian security agents and tortured for four days
- Regeni was undertaking a research project in Egypt in 2018 before he was killed
''Giulio Regeni, 28, was beaten with sticks and suffered severe burns, the prosecution's medical consultant told during the trial against the Egyptian intelligence officers in Rome on Wednesday.
It was revealed the Italian student showed major signs of extreme torture including cuts and bruises from severe beatings and more than two dozen bone fractures - among them seven broken ribs, all fingers and toes, as well as legs, arms, and shoulder blades.''
Regeni's body also had multiple stab wounds on the soles of his feet, slices in his skin made from a sharp object suspected to be a razor blade and several cigarette burns.
A larger burn mark was spotted between his shoulder blades - a chilling sign that the student was branded with a large, burning object.''
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