Regeni’s mutilated body was found on an outlying Cairo desert highway in February that year, eight days after he disappeared while researching trade unions in Egypt. The Regeni family and Ballerini said the Egyptian authorities were instead focused on intimidating their legal team in Cairo. The commission tracks enforced disappearances like Regeni’s, while some of their employees act as the Regeni family’s Egyptian legal counsel. Abdel Al is one of five Egyptian NSA members named by Italian prosecutors last November as suspects in Regeni’s disappearance. The Rome prosecutor Sergio Colaiocco, who is leading the investigation into Regeni’s murder, said: “We have sent the authorities in Cairo an international rogatory [letter of request].

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 13:30 UTC