TIMELINE

• 15 January 1988: birth (Trieste, Italy).
• 25 January 2016: disappearance (Cairo, Egypt).
• 3 February 2016: discovery of the body (Cairo, Egypt).
• 24 February 2016: Amnesty International Italy launched a campaign “Verità per Giulio Regeni”.
• 1 March 2016: Italian and Egyptian officials conducted separate autopsies on Regeni’s corpse.
• 10 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.
• 24 March 2016: Egyptian police killed in a shoot out four men who were allegedly responsible for kidnapping Regeni.
• 7 June 2016: l’Espresso reported that Regeni’s tutor Maha Abdelrahman had followed advice from University lawyers not to collaborate with the inquest.
• 8 June 2016: Italian news agency ANSA reported that Regeni’s tutors at Cambridge University had declined to collaborate with the inquest into his murder.
•  21 April 2016: Reuters reported three Egyptian intelligence officials and three police sources independently claiming Regeni was in police custody at some time before his death.
• 7 December 2016: a joint statement of Egyptian and Italian prosecutors, released following a two-day summit in Rome, 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.
• 25 January 2017: first anniversary of his disappearance.
• 1 May 2017: Pope Francis confirmed that the Vatican is taking steps to investigate the situation.
• 15 August 2017: journalist Declan Walsh collected in a New York Times article the statement of an anonymous Obama administration official who revealed that the United States acquired “explosive proof that Egyptian security officials had abducted, tortured and likked Regeni” and that “Egypt’s leadership was fully aware of the circumstances”.
• 21 December 2017: the Italian investigators led by Giuseppe Pignatone flew to Cairo to meet the Egyptian prosecutor Nabel Sadek and his team.