The university of Cambridge has
responded to Italian prosecutors' request and sent documents to
Rome on Giulio Regeni, the Italian research student tortured and
murdered in Cairo earlier this year, judicial source said
Wednesday. Regeni, 28, was researching independent Egyptian
trade unions for the British university. Egyptian friends of
Regeni have said his work among union activists brought him into
the cross-hairs of Egypt's security forces. Egypt has denied its
intelligence or police had any role in the murder of Regeni, who
disappeared on January 25 and whose body was found in a ditch
outside Cairo on February 3. Egypt's prosecutor general is set
to arrive in Rome for a third meeting with Rome prosecutors on
the case, which has garnered headlines worldwide and spurred
criticism of Egypt's authoritarian government. The day Regeni
went missing was the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the
uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni Mubarak. Human
rights groups say the Egyptian regime has 'disappeared' hundreds
of opponents.
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