The parents of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni, whose tortured body was found in a ditch in Cairo in early February, demanded on Tuesday a strong response from Italy if the truth behind Regeni’s death is not revealed. Speaking at a televised press conference at Italy’s Senate, Paola Regeni, the mother of the Italian student, said she barely recognized her son when his body was shown to her at the morgue. “At the mortuary I only recognized Giulio by the tip of his nose,” she said at the first press conference since her son’s body was found. She said that what she witnessed was “the world’s evil,” and “what they did to him is unspeakable.” The 28-year-old PhD student went missing on January 25, the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising. Human rights groups have said the torture marks on his body – burns, stabbings, pulled out fingernails – resemble the methods used by Egypt’s security forces, pointing to the involvement of Egyptian authorities in Regeni’s death. Egypt’s government forcefully denies the accusation. At the press conference, Regeni’s parents refuted Cairo’s latest claim that a criminal gang, the members of which…
Giulio Regeni’s Family Refutes Egypt’s ‘Gang’ Claims, Demands Tough Response From Italy
March 30, 2016
