Regeni 'tortured repeatedly over 7 days'

(ANSA) - Rome, March 1 - Italian student Giulio Regeni was tortured for seven days before being killed, two Egyptian police sources told Reuters Tuesday citing Cairo coroner Hisham Abdel Hamid. The wounds on Regeni's body show the torture happened at intervals of 10-14 hours, they said. "That means that whoever is accused of killing him was interrogating him to get information," the sources told Reuters. Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral student researching Egyptian trade unions, was found in a ditch outside Cairo on February 3 after disappearing on January 25, the heavily policed fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni Mubarak.