A team of Russian experts has been
tasked to recover all the footage of Cairo's metro line 2 on the
day Giulio Regeni disappeared, January 25, 2016, Rome and Cairo
prosecutors said Tuesday.
The prosecutors and technical experts have started recovering
images which will be done with software developed by the Russian
company, they said.
Regeni went missing on the heavily policed fifth anniversary
of the uprising that ousted former strongman Hosni Mubarak.
His body, bearing signs of long torture, was found in a ditch
on the road to Alexandria on February 3.
Italian prosecutors say the Egyptian security apparatus is
implicated in the torture and murder of the Cambridge doctoral
student, who was researching street hawkers' unions, a
politically sensitive topic.
Regeni's mother Paola Deffendi began a hunger strike on
Monday to demand the immediate release of the wife of the
director of an NGO that has been assisting the family in Cairo.
Amal Fathy, wife of Mohamed Lotfy who heads up the Egyptian
Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), was arrested by
police in the early hours of May 11 for reasons that remain
unclear.
Alessandra Ballerini, the lawyer representing the family in
its quest for truth concerning Regeni's disappearance and
murder, is also participating in the hunger strike, and the pair
have appealed to other women to do the same.
"As women, we are particularly upset and concerned about the
prolonged detention of Amal, wife of our legal consultant
Lofty," the women said in a statement.
"No one should ever again pay for our legitimate request for
truth concerning Giulio's disappearance, torture and murder,"
they added.
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