Missing Italian Giulio Regeni found dead in Cairo with ‘signs of torture’
Euronews

CAIRO, EGYPT -- Missing Italian student Giulio Regeni has been found dead in Cairo “with signs of torture,” according to a senior Egyptian prosecutor.

The Cambridge PhD student was discovered half naked by the roadside in the outskirts of the capital. Cigarette burns and other signs of torture suggesting a ‘slow death’ were evident on his body.

Security officials say the 28-year-old’s corpse has been taken to a Cairo morgue and an investigation has been opened.

The Egyptian ambassador has been summoned to Italy’s foreign ministry in Rome. It says it expects “maximum collaboration at all levels, in light of the exceptional gravity of what happened.”

Regeni disappeared on January 25, 2016 as he headed downtown to meet a friend. The date marked the fifth anniversary of the uprising which ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2016/02/04/signs-of-torture-on-body-of-missing-italian-found-dead-in-cairo/

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A terrible terrible end for someone that was nothing to do with all the madness. RIP

Italy-Egypt to jointly investigate death of ‘tortured’ student Giulio Regeni



ROME: -- Italy’s Foreign Minister has confirmed Rome will collaborate with Cairo in an investigation into the death of twenty-eight-year-old student Giulio Regeni.

His half-naked body was found at the side of a road on the outskirts of Cairo. Cigarette burns, cuts and other signs of torture suggesting a ‘slow death’ were evident on his body, a senior Egyptian prosecutor said.

This appears to contradict the findings of a senior Egyptian investigator who has been quoted ruling out foul play in relation to the death, suggesting instead he may have been involved in a road accident.

Regeni disappeared on January 25, 2016, the date of the fifth anniversary of the uprising which ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.

Italian media reports the student was collaborating with workers’ movements and independent trade unions in Cairo and had contacts with the Egyptian opposition. He is said to have been sending articles under a pseudonym to Italy’s self-styled Communist newspaper Il Manifesto. An Italian journalist told the press Regeni had been afraid to sign his real name.

Italian authorities are reported to be pushing for his remains to be returned to Italy as soon as possible.

The Egyptian ambassador has been summoned to Italy’s foreign ministry in Rome. It says it expects “maximum collaboration at all levels, in light of the exceptional gravity of what happened.”


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-02-05

....was it ever explained what he was doing in the region....???

There are folks whose ambition is to do away with educated people...take the world back to the stone age...men dictate and dominate..women become little more than a commodity...life not worth very much...or worth living unless you are in on the evil...

....was it ever explained what he was doing in the region....???

He was an archeology student some news reports.

At least nine in the media space have been killed in Egypt in connection with their work, including foreign reporters, in the past four years; could well be security forces had him killed.