Egyptian security officials suspected of torturing and killing a Cambridge PhD student are set to face trial in Italy as international condemnation of Egypt’s human rights record grows.
Italian magistrates are wrapping up their investigation into five officials suspected of involvement in the murder of Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian whose tortured body was found dumped by a Cairo roadside in February 2016, nine days after he disappeared in the city.
Regeni, whose doctoral research into Egyptian trade unions reportedly sparked suspicions he was a spy, was so badly tortured his mother said she was only able to identify his body by the tip of his nose.
An Italian investigative source told The Times that magistrates in Rome were likely to request a trial
