An Italian court on Monday convicted three Egyptian security officials in absentia over the 2016 kidnapping of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. The three men — Major Magdi Sharif, Colonel Ather Kamal and Colonel Hisham Helmy — were each sentenced to 10 years in prison. A fourth defendant, Major General Tarek Sabir, was acquitted. […]
The bilateral relation between Egypt and Italy has hit a low point as the former has failed to offer complete corporation to the latter over the latter’s investigation into the kidnap and murder of Italian doctorate student Giulio Regeni, who were researching about the functioning of Egyptian trade unions. The incident, which has led to […]

