MURDER OF GIULIO REGENI

Giulio Regeni (15/01/1988 – 2016) was an Italian Cambridge University graduate who was abducted ans tortured to death in Egypt. He was a PhD student at Girton College in Cambridge. He was researching Egypt’s independent trade unions, and a former employee for Oxford Analytica.

DISCOVERY OF THE BODY

Regeni’s mutilated and half-naked corpse was found in a ditch alongside the highway on the outskirts of Cairo on February 3, 2016. His body showed signs of extreme torture of various types from beats, cuts, burns, fractured bone.

INVESTIGATIONS

Italian and Egyptian officials conducted separate autopsies on Regeni’s corpse. These two autopsies highlights that he has been tortured, in many ways for many days and this caused the death of him.

On March 24, 2016, Egyptian police killed in a shoot-out four men who were allegedly responsible for kidnapping Regeni. In a raid on the flat of one of the gang members, the Egyptian police claim they found various items that belonged to Regeni including his passport and student photo IDs. But some witnesses told journalists various things about the gang, and after some time, The New Cairo prosecutor's office denied that the criminal gang was involved in his murder.

Documents and passport were handed over to Italian prosecutors on November 1, 2016 during a meeting in Cairo.

On June 8, 2016, “ANSA” reported that Regeni’s tutors at Cambridge University had declined to collaborate with the inquest nto his murder, to the disappointment of investigators and family.

ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNEMENT

Due to Regeni's research activities and left-wing political leanings, the Egyptian police is strongly suspected of involvement in his murder in Europe,^[21] although Egypt's media and government deny this.

On April 21, 2016 Reuters reported three Egyptian intelligence officials and three police sources independently claiming Regeni was in police custody at some time before his death. According to these sources he was picked up by plainclothes police officers near Gamal Abdel Nasser metro station together with another Egyptian man on the evening of January 25th.

After that, the Egyptian general prosecutor, confirmed that Cairo police had received a report on Giulio Regeni on January 7, 2016, and that the Egyptian National Security Agency had been monitoring Regeni.

On December 7, 2016, a joint statement of Egyptian and Italian prosecutors, stated that Egyptian prosecutors had questioned the policemen who investigated Regeni's death in January, as well as those who killed the four gang members in March.

On August 15, 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".

On December 21, 2017 the Italian investigators flew to Cairo to meet the Egyptian prosecutor and his team. During the meeting, the Italians, provided a detailed explanation for the facts: for kidnapping, they reiterated and pinpointed the allegations against major Magdi Ibrqaim Abdlaal Sharif, captain Osan Helmy, and three other people of Egyptian National Security Agency. For red herring, which included the killings on March 24, 2016, they blamed captain Mahmud Hendy and other people of the local police.

REACTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

The gruesome torture and murder of Giulio Regeni sparked global outrage, with more than 4,600 academics signing a petition calling for an investigation into his death and into the many disappearances that take place in Egypt each month, while on February 24, 2016, Amnesty International Italy launched a campaign "Verità per Giulio Regeni".

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