Two years since the murder of an Italian student in Cairo, the Egyptian regime has yet to acknowledge the nature of its involvement writes Yohann Koshy.
Giulio Regeni, an Italian PhD student at Cambridge University, travelled to Cairo in September 2015 to research the city’s independent trade unions – a sensitive topic under President al-Sisi’s military regime.
On 25 January 2016 he went missing. Nine days later his body was found in a ditch on the side of the Cairo-Alexandria highway. It bore gruesome bruises and lacerations that indicated torture.
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