Demonstrators clashed with
police late on Monday during a city council meeting Trieste in
north-eastern Italy as they protest against the removal from the
facade of city hall of a banner commemorating murdered PhD
student Giulio Regeni.
Hundreds of demonstrators took part in the protest in the
city's central Piazza d'Italia square, which was organized by
Amnesty International after Mayor Riccardo Dipiazza last week
decided to remove the banner demanding the truth about the
murder in Egypt - ''Verità per Giulio Regeni'' (truth for Giulio
Regeni).
A small group of protesters who were inside council
chambers clashed with municipal police and were forced to leave
the room.
The Italian Cambridge graduate student, 28, born in the
town of Fiumicello in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region around
Trieste, went missing on the night of January 25, the heavily
policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled former
strongman Hosni Mubarak.
His burned, mutilated, and partially unclothed body turned
up in a ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3.
Rights groups including Amnesty have said he is among
hundreds of people who have disappeared in Egypt over the past
year.
Cairo has repeatedly denied the allegations elements of the
Egyptian state were behind the murder, offering a series of
explanations ranging from a car crash, to a gay lovers' quarrel
gone wrong, to a kidnap for ransom.
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