Rome prosecutors on Thursday sent
via diplomatic means an international request for judicial
cooperation on the Giulio Regeni case to Egypt. The request asks
Egyptian authorities to hand over all relevant material in the
probe into the Cairo torture and murder of the 28-year-old
Cambridge doctoral researcher, especially long-sought phone
records. The request, sent by the justice ministry via the
foreign ministry to Italy's consulate in Cairo, will be
evaluated by Egyptian Prosecutor General Ahmed Nabil Sadeq.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday denied
Egyptian security forces were behind Regeni's murder, accusing
the national and international media of peddling lies about the
killing, which he attributed to unspecified "evil people" who
allegedly wanted to hurt bilateral ties.
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