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An Egyptian activist holds a poster calling for justice in the case of Giulio Regeni in Cairo, Egypt, April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
On December 10, Human Rights Day, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry called for international cooperation and an exchange of expertise without “dictation or claim of perfection that hasn’t and will never be attained by any party.” The same day, Rome’s chief prosecutor announced she was charging four ranking Egyptian National Security Agency officers with responsibility for the abduction, torture, and murder of an Italian graduate student, Giulio Regeni, in Cairo in early 2016.
Egypt’s understanding of “cooperation” has been on full display pretty much ever since Regeni’s badly mutilated body was discovered almost five years ago, nine days after he had been “disappeared” in downtown Cairo. On November 30, following a final meeting with visiting Italian prosecutors, Egypt announced it was of
Italy Will Not Let it Go
Italian prosecutors formally put four high-ranking members of Egypt’s security forces under investigation on Thursday over the alleged 2016 kidnapping, torture and killing of Italian doctoral research student Giulio Regeni whose body was found on a highway in Cairo.
Sergio Colaiocco, a prosecutor in Rome, Italy, told a session of a special parliamentary commission on the slaying of Giulio Regeni. As we said, the notice for the conclusion of the investigations is referred to four officers belonging to Egyptian security forces. The names are known and were published by the press. They are all included in the general category of the Egyptian security forces.
Italy charges Egyptian security agents in death of student
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The parents of Giulio Regeni, Claudio (L) and Paola, show the picture of a mural made upon a wall in Berlin during a press conference at the Italian Senate in Rome on April 3, 2017. Italian prosecutors Thursday charged four Egyptian security personnel with Regeni s death. Photo by Massimo Percossi/EPA-EFE
Dec. 10 (UPI) Italy on Thursday charged four Egyptian National SecurityAgency officials in connection with the 2016 kidnapping and death of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni.
Regeni was a 28-year-old student studying at Britain s Cambridge University when he disappeared in Cairo on Jan. 25, 2016. His body was found a month later along a highway on the outer edge of Cairo and appeared to have been tortured.