Sources at the general
prosecutors office in Cairo have said that the arrest of Ahmed
Abdallah Al Sheikh, who was working as a consultant for Giulio
Regeni's family, was not linked to the case of the Italian
researcher who was tortured and murdered in Egypt earlier this
year, according to an Egyptian daily. The sources said the
detention was related to an "unauthorized demonstration" and has
"nothing to do with the family of the Italian student," the site
of daily newspaper Al Masry Al Youm said Wednesday. Regeni's
family on Tuesday expressed alarm at the arrest of Abdallah,
president of the board of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and
Freedom (ECRF), an NGO that is providing consultancy work for
their lawyers. 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. His beaten, burned,
slashed, and mutilated body turned up in a ditch on the city's
outskirts on February 3.
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