The general prosecutor’s office in Rome has sent a judicial request to Egypt’s public prosecutor for information on three policemen whose names have come up for the first time in investigations into the torture of Italian student Giulio Regeni. In 2016 Regeni was tortured to death and found on the Cairo-Alexandria highway in Egypt on the anniversary of the January uprising. His death is thought to have been carried out by members of the country’s top security agencies, who were receiving information about the research into trade unions he was conducting whilst in the country. Egypt has consistently failed to investigate the incident properly whilst Italy has secured huge arms and trade deals despite Regeni’s family repeatedly calling on authorities … Continue reading Regeni: Italy asks Egypt’s public prosecutor for information on 3 police officers