New information indicates that Giulio Regeni, 28, an Italian citizen who was found dead in Cairo on January 25th while conducting fieldwork for a PhD at Cambridge University, was tortured at length before he was killed.
Hisham Abdel Hamid, the Director of the Egyptian Department of Forensic Medicine, has revealed that Regeni was burned with cigarettes and otherwise tortured for up to a week before he was murdered.
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Abdel Hamid termed the violence “inhuman.”
Regeni’s body was found dumped on the side of a road in mutilated by interrogation methods that are considered the hallmark of the Egyptian security services. It is the strongest indication yet that Regeni was killed by a person or group working for the government, and the revelation risks causing a crisis in the already strained ties between Egypt and Italy.
An investigator in the Egyptian investigating prosecutor’s office told Reuters the new information “means that whoever is accused of killing him was interrogating him for information.”