The university of Cambridge has
responded to Italian prosecutors' request and sent documents to
Rome on Giulio Regeni, the Italian research student tortured and
murdered in Cairo earlier this year, judicial source said
Wednesday.
The documents were sent to Rome prosecutors after a request
made following prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco's visit to Cambridge
on June 6.
A second batch of documents will arrive in the coming days
from Girton College where Regeni was working.
Regeni, 28, was researching independent Egyptian trade
unions for the British university.
Egyptian friends of Regeni have said his work among union
activists brought him into the cross-hairs of Egypt's security
forces.
Egypt has denied its intelligence or police had any role in
the murder of Regeni, who disappeared on January 25 and whose
body was found in a ditch outside Cairo on February 3 with
multiple signs of torture on it.
Egypt's prosecutor general is set to arrive in Rome for a
third meeting with Rome prosecutors on the case, which has
garnered headlines worldwide and spurred criticism of Egypt's
authoritarian government.
The day Regeni went missing was the heavily policed fifth
anniversary of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni
Mubarak.
Human rights groups say the Egyptian regime has
'disappeared' hundreds of opponents.
Egypt has offered up a number of explanations for the young
man's condition and his death - including a gay lovers' quarrel,
a car crash, and a kidnapping for ransom gone wrong - none of
which Italy has found convincing.
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