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Giulio Regeni: Italy names Egyptian police in murdered student case
Source: BBC
Giulio Regeni: Italy names Egyptian police in murdered student case
4 December 2018
A public prosecutor in Rome has placed five Egyptian security officials under investigation over the disappearance of an Italian postgraduate student.
Giulio Regeni, who was studying at Cambridge University, had been doing research for his doctorate in Cairo when he went missing in January 2016.
His mutilated body was discovered nine days later on the city's outskirts.
The topic he was looking into - independent trade unions - is politically controversial within Egypt.
In January, a prosecutor in Rome said his research was the sole reason for his death, but no one has ever been arrested for it.
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4 December 2018
A public prosecutor in Rome has placed five Egyptian security officials under investigation over the disappearance of an Italian postgraduate student.
Giulio Regeni, who was studying at Cambridge University, had been doing research for his doctorate in Cairo when he went missing in January 2016.
His mutilated body was discovered nine days later on the city's outskirts.
The topic he was looking into - independent trade unions - is politically controversial within Egypt.
In January, a prosecutor in Rome said his research was the sole reason for his death, but no one has ever been arrested for it.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46439288
Regeni was murdered and his body found dumped on the outskirts of Cairo in February 2016
