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Italian prosecutors prepare charges in murder case of student in Cairo

The Egyptian security officials have 20 days to respond before Italian prosecutors ask a judge to charge them in relation to the 2016 murder of Giulio Regeni.

Al-Monitor Staff
Al-Monitor Staff
Dec 10, 2020
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Activists of human rights organization Amnesty International take part in a demonstration in Piazza Castello in Turin on Jan. 25, 2020, to mark the fourth anniversary of the disappearance of Italian student Giulio Regeni. Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University Ph.D. student from Italy, disappeared on Jan. 25, 2016, in central Cairo, as police were out in force in anticipation of protests that day. His body was later found by the side of a road bearing signs of torture. He had been researching street vendor trade unions, an especially sensitive political issue in Egypt, with successive governments fearing strikes and unrest. Egypt has forcefully denied that its police were involved in his abduction. — MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images

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