THE GIULIO REGENI CASE: A TIMELINE.

-15th of January 1988: Giulio Regeni was born in Trieste, Italy.

-7th of January 2016: The Cairo police received a report on Giulio, followed by a joint statement released the day after.

-25th of January 2016: Giulio Regeni was arrested outside of a metro station in Cairo (Egypt) and taken to a Homeland Security compound.

-Between the end of January and the beggining of February 2016: Giulio Regeni is reported missing.  

-3rd of February 2016: The lifeless body of Giulio Regeni was found by the side of a road in Cairo.

-24th of February 2016: The campaign “Verità per Giulio Regeni” was launched.

-1st of March 2016: Italian and Egyptian officials conducted separate autopsies on Regeni's corpse with an Egyptian forensic official reporting.

-10th of March 2016: the European Parliament in Strasbourg passed a motion for a resolution condemning the torture and killing of Giulio Regeni and the ongoing human rights abuses of the al-Sisi government in Egypt.

-24th of March 2016: The Egyptian police killed in a shoot out four men who were allegedly responsible for kidnapping Giulio Regeni.

-21st of April 2016: Three Egyptian intelligence officials and three police sources were reported claiming Giulio Regeni was in police custody at some time before his passing.

-May 2016: The Italian magazine L'Espresso set up a secure platform to collect testimonials about torture and human rights abuse from Egyptian whistleblowers and to seek justice for Giulio Regeni.

-1st of November 2016: Giulio Regeni's documents were handed over to Italian prosecutors.

-7th of November 2016: A statement of Egyptian and Italian prosecutors stated that Egyptian prosecutors had questioned the policemen who investigated Regeni's death and those who killed the gang members.

-1st of May 2017: Pope Francis confirmed that the Vatican is taking steps to investigate the situation.

-15th of August 2017: journalist Declan Walsh collected in a New York Times article the statement of an anonymous Obama administration official who revealed that, in the weeks after Regeni's death, the United States acquired "explosive proof that Egyptian security officials had abducted, tortured and killed Regeni" and that "Egypt's leadership was fully aware of the death circumstances".

-21st of December 2017: Italian investigators led by Giuseppe Pignatone flew to Cairo to meet the Egyptian prosecutor Nabel Sadek and his team.