Regeni not very politically engaged

(ANSA) - Rome, February 8 - Giulio Regeni, the Italian doctoral student slain in Cairo, was not very strongly politically engaged and all his contacts were made with the iam of writing his Cambridge doctoral thesis, his friends told investigators Monday. "He was just doing the work of a researcher," they reportedly said. Regeni's work on trade unions had prompted reports he had been meeting political activists.