Cambridge Amnesty activists and supporters from the town and University marked Human Rights Day with a protest in the town’s market square calling for Truth for Giulio Regeni and justice for Egypt’s disappeared. They were joined by Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner, Alex Mayer MEP and Lewis Herbert, leader of Cambridge city council. Alex Mayer MEP…
by Carlotta Mingardi Seven months after the body of Giulio Regeni, the young Italian researcher from Cambridge, was found lifeless in Cairo, with evident signs of torture, Italian senator Luigi Manconi, Amnesty Italy and Giulio’s parents are calling on the Italian government to resist pressure from Egypt to restore full diplomatic relations. Italian civil society has also…
The Italian ambassador to Egypt, Maurizio Massari, has been recalled to Rome for urgent consultations following the failure of a summit between the Italian and Egyptian teams investigating the torture and murder of Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni in Cairo earlier this year. Human rights activists and experts say that the torture Giulio suffered bears…
The European parliament voted overwhelmingly for a resolution on 10 March condemning the murder of Giulio Regeni and ongoing repression in Egypt. The motion called for a number of measures to be taken against the Egyptian government including the suspension of security cooperation with Egypt and an EU-wide ban on the sale of arms to…
A delegation of UK MPs discussed the murder of Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni with Egyptian officials in Cairo on 7 March, UK Ambassador John Casson confirmed. Giulio’s case, and the wider issue of human rights, was noticeably absent from a list of topics Casson asked Twitter users to vote for the previous day. A…
