Italy court upholds decision to suspend trial of 4 security officials charged with Regeni murder

Image of the candlelight procession for Italian student Giulio Regeni in Rome, Italy [Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu]

A court in Rome has upheld a previous decision to suspend the trial of four Egyptian security officials charged with the murder of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni. Regeni was conducting research into independent trade unions in Egypt in 2016 when he was forcibly disappeared and tortured to death with his body later found by the side of a road. A judge suspended the trial in October last year citing concerns that it was unclear whether or not the officials were formally aware that they were charged in the 2016 abduction, torture and killing of Regeni. Under Italian law prosecutors must notify defendants that they have been indicted, however, Egyptian authorities would not pass on the addresses of the four […] Source

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