Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy, who was looking into forced disappearance of Giulio Regeni in 2016, secretly arrested in CairoA lawyer investigating the murder of an Italian student in Egypt is facing prosecution and up to five years in prison after being forcibly disappeared at Cairo airport. He was going to speak about the Regeni case as the iconic example of this.”Metwally’s arrest comes days before Giampaolo Cantini is due to assume the post of Italian ambassador to Egypt in Cairo. It also focused on the relationship between arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearances, torture and fabricated cases against detainees. Lotfy said the waning international pressure over the Regeni case was allowing Cairo to step up its persecution of rights activists. As soon as it appears to have stopped, they immediately go after those working on enforced disappearances.”

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2017 13:43 UTC