The detention in jail of
Ibrahim Metwaly, an Egyptian human rights activist and legal
consultant to the family of Giulio Regeni, has been extended by
15 days, his lawyer Ezzat Ghonem told ANSA on Wednesday.
Metwaly was arrested at Cairo airport on September while on
the way to take part in a session of the UN Human Rights Council
in Geneva.
Regeni was an Italian postgraduate student who was tortured
and murdered in Egypt last year.
Egypt has denied suggestions its security forces, frequently
accused of brutal repression of opposition, had anything to do
with the death of Regeni, a 28-year-old who was researching
Cairo street seller unions.
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