Italian court convicts three Egyptians in absentia for kidnap of slain student Regeni
The judges said the men were guilty of aggravated kidnapping, while prosecutors had sought life imprisonment for one defendant.
- On Monday, an Italian court in ROME convicted three Egyptian security officials for the 2016 kidnapping of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University student whose tortured body was found in Cairo days after his disappearance.
- Regeni vanished in Cairo on January 25, 2016; Italian prosecutors argued he was targeted for his research into trade unions, a sensitive subject in Egypt.
- Major Magdi Sharif, Colonel Hisham Helmy, and Colonel Ather Kamal were found guilty of "aggravated kidnapping" and sentenced to 10 years in jail, while a fourth defendant was acquitted.
- Rome Chief Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi told reporters the result was achieved "despite what can be described as less than wholehearted cooperation from the Egyptian authorities."
- Prosecutors had sought a life term for Sharif and 17 years and six months for the other three, though Egypt has denied state involvement and maintained a criminal gang was responsible.
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RECIT - These officers of the National Security, tried in absentia, were found guilty by the Court of Assizes of Rome of having abducted the 28-year-old student whose lifeless body, found shortly thereafter, bore marks of torture.
The Italian government is hesitant about diplomatic reactions, even though the first verdict in the case of the abduction and death of a 28-year-old PhD student has now been handed down.
The Court of Assise of Rome recognizes the aggravated seizure, but not the charge of murder of the Italian researcher
A court in Rome convicted three Egyptian security officials for the case in Cairo in 2016; the Italian Chancellor minimized the importance of the ruling and was questioned by the opposition
A 28-year-old man who was writing a PhD on Egyptian unions was kidnapped and tortured to death.
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