The family of Giulio Regeni, an
Italian student tortured and murdered in Cairo, have urged Italy
and Germany to withdraw their ambassadors from Egypt to up
pressure on Cairo to help get to the truth about their son's
death.
"Declaring Egypt an unsafe country and recalling the
ambassadors could be a strong signal that we expect human rights
to be respected," Paola and Claudio Regeni wrote to the foreign
affairs committee of the Italian and German parliaments.
Regeni, 28, from the Friuli region, was tortured and murdered
in Cairo in early 2016.
Last month one of five Egyptian secret service officers
suspected of involvement in his abduction, torture and murder
allegedly admitted to abducting him in a conversation overheard
by a witness at a restaurant, Italian dailies Corriere della
Sera and La Repubblica reported.
The intelligence service agent reportedly did not realize
that someone was listening to his conversation.
He allegedly told the person he was dining with: "We
kidnapped Regeni. We though he was a British spy".
Rome prosecutors investigating the case have requested a new
international 'rogatory' questioning of those implicated.
The prosecutors last year placed several members of the
Egyptian security apparatus under investigation for the death of
Regni, who was researching Cairo street seller unions for
Cambridge University.
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