By Margherita Stancati Close Margherita Stancati and Jared Malsin Close Jared Malsin Updated Dec. 14, 2020 8:14 am ET ROME—Italian student Giulio Regeni moved to Cairo in September 2015 to research Egypt’s independent labor unions for his Ph.D. thesis at Cambridge University. Months later, the 28-year-old was found dead on the side of a highway, bearing cigarette burns, broken teeth and fractured bones.
What emerges from witness testimony, phone records and other evidence is a story of betrayal, deception and brutality, and offers a rare look inside the workings of Egypt’s vast security state. This account of Mr. Regeni’s fate is based on interviews, prosecutor statements and court documents. On Jan. 7, 2016, Mr. Abdullah used a hidden camera to film Mr. Regeni discussing the possible grant application, which never happened. The video was later aired on Egyptian state television, which described it as evidence of Mr. Regeni’s subversive activities.
Just before 8 p.m., he was abducted at his local metro stop and taken to a nearby police station. He was blindfolded and driven across the Nile to the offices of the NSA, inside the grounds of Egypt’s Interior Ministry. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTSDo you think justice will be served in the Regeni case? Why or why not? Join the conversation below.
Egyptian prosecutors concurred, saying the gang had no connection with Mr. Regeni’s death, but in late 2020 they changed tack, saying they suspected the gang was responsible. Nobody has been charged in Egypt over Mr. Regeni’s killing. Maj. Sharif “said the Italian could have been with the CIA or Mossad,” the witness said, according to a transcript of his testimony. The major said “they heard from wiretapped communications that he was planning to go to a party near Tahrir Square, and they stopped him before,” according to the witness. Maj. Sharif said he personally hit Mr. Regeni, the witness said.
margheritamvs jmalsin Why all the stupidest terrorists still going there?
And yet you want our country to be like this under Trump?
Everything written in your newspaper is horse shit and unreliable until you apologize to DR. Jill Biden.
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