Italy will not tire of calling
for truth on the case of Giulio Regeni, the young Italian
researcher who was tortured and killed in Cairo three months ago
in circumstances that remain unclear, Lower House Speaker Laura
Boldrini has said.
"We will never tire of asking for the truth. A democracy
does not compromise," she said during celebrations to mark
Liberation Day in Italy on Monday.
Italy has complained of a lack of cooperation from Cairo in
getting to the bottom of the case after Regeni's mutilated body
was found in a ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3.
Meanwhile in the Egyptian capital a journalist who
interviewed the relatives of the criminal gang allegedly found
to be in possession of Regeni's documents was among numerous
people detained following anti-government protests coinciding
with the anniversary of the end of the Israeli occupation of the
Sinai peninsula on Monday.
Basma Mostafa was one of six local and six foreign
journalists be to detained.
Also on Monday, an Egyptian television presenter drew
criticism after saying Regeni could 'go to hell'.
"What's all the fuss about?" asked Rania Yassin on the
Saudi television channel Al Hadath Al Arabiya.
"Is it the first time that someone has been killed?
Initially we sympathised, a young person had been killed. But
now you have pushed us into saying 'go to hell', we've had
enough of this story!"
Journalists in Cairo said Yassin's remarks were "out of
place and not to be publicised".
Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student
researching Egyptian trade unions, disappeared on January 25,
the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that
toppled former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
Italy recently recalled its ambassador to Egypt for
consultations after the investigation into Regeni's death
stalled, with Egypt proffering unlikely versions of his death
that included a car crash, a gay lovers' quarrel, and a
kidnapping for ransom gone wrong.
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