Rome prosecutors will be questioning Giulio Regeni’s supervisor, the University of Cambridge professor Maha Abdelrahman, in January as part of the investigation into the Italian student’s murder in Egypt last year, the Italian wire service ANSA reported on Wednesday. The article also cites unease expressed by Regeni in two Skype conversations with his mother Paola, leading the Rome prosecutors to request clarification on several aspects of the case. The Rome prosecutor’s office confirmed that British authorities “were providing the utmost collaboration with the probe,” ANSA reported. ANSA, who cited sources, wrote in November that Abdelrahman failed to meet a summons to appear before Italian prosecutors in June. Giulio Regeni was a 28-year-old Cambridge Italian researcher residing in Cairo to conduct field research for his PhD thesis on independent unions in Egypt.

Source: Egypt Independent December 07, 2017 13:41 UTC