Cambridge University is to
set up a scholarship in the name of Giulio Regeni, the Italian
student tortured and murdered in Cairo while doing research for
the British university early in 2016, university press office
spokesman Angel Gurria told ANSA Thursday.
Gurria said the university was working on the initiative to
honour the PhD student who was doing research on Egyptian
streetseller trade unions when he was abducted.
Regeni's former supervisor, Dr Maha Abdelrahman, is "fully
cooperating" with Rome prosecutors in their probe into his
death, the university told ANSA in a statement Thursday.
Dr Abdelrahman answered "all the questions" put to her by the
prosecutors on Tuesday, and said she had "voluntarily handed
over the documents requested" when her home and office were
searched Wednesday.
The university said it, too, would fully cooperate with the
probe.
The university had been criticised in Italy for allegedly
being tight-lipped on the case.
Italiam media also reported Thursday that Abdelrahman's files
were seized because she had again failed to answer questions.
Regeni was abducted on January 25, 2016, the heavily policed
fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled former strongman
Hosni Mubarak.
His tortured body was found on the road to Alexandria on
February 3.
Egyptian security forces, who are frequently accused of
brutally repressing opponents, have said they had no part in the
death of the Friuli-born researcher, whose work on trade unions
was politically sensitive.
In the search of Dr Abdelrahman's home and office, Rome
prosecutors seized a PC, pen drive, hard disk and cellphone.
Dr Abdelrahman reportedly told the prosecutors Tuesday Regeni
had freely chosen his PhD subject.
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