ROME – Italian student Giulio Regini traveled to Cairo in September 2015 for his PhD to study Egypt’s independent trade unions. Thesis at the University of Cambridge. Several months later, the 28-year-old was found dead on the side of the highway, with cigarette burns, broken teeth and broken bones.
Mr. Italian prosecutors last week indicted four members of Egypt’s security forces in connection with the abduction, torture and death of Regini, as they filed the most comprehensive case against the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Serious international embarrassment.
Human rights groups say this is the first full judicial inquiry into the alleged use of covert detention by Egyptian security services, which has affected thousands of Egyptians. Police and security officials are facing charges of torture and death in custody in Egypt, which creates the claim that rights groups have a climate of punishment.
Mohamed Lotfi, director of the Egyptian Rights and Liberation Commission, an NGO representing the Regini family in Egypt, said: “This will be a test of a machine that is disappearing and torturing. Mr. Lodfi said.
The testimony of witnesses, phone records and other evidence reveals the story of treachery, fraud and brutality, and gives a rare glimpse into the activities of Egypt’s vast security state. Mr. This account of Regency’s fate is based on interviews, lawyer statements and court documents.