(25 Jan 2017)
Students demanding justice for Giulio Regeni, an Italian abducted and tortured to death in Egypt, organised a protest at the Sapienza University in Rome on Wednesday, a year to the day from his disappearance in Cairo.
They held up signs with the numbers from one to 365 to mark the days that had passed since his disappearance and listened to Regeni's mother describing her grief.
The head of the Italian branch of Amnesty International, Antonio Marchesi, said the human rights organization would not stop searching for the truth about what happened to the 28-year old, whose brutally tortured body was found by the side of a suburban Cairo road nearly 10 days after he disappeared.
The demo came a few days after Egyptian state television aired footage shot a few weeks before Regeni's death.
The video of the Cambridge graduate student was purportedly taken secretly by Mohammed Abdullah, head of an unofficial street vendors union.
The narrative revealed in the video seems to support a theory that has emerged in the investigation - that Regeni was attempting to help union organizers apply for grants while researching the labour movement in Egypt, a sensitive topic that aroused suspicion by the country's feared intelligence services.
Egypt's pro-government media has long suggested Regeni was involved in fomenting unrest, without providing any evidence.
Regeni went missing in Cairo last year on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 25 uprising, when police were out in force.
Egypt has denied its security forces were involved in the killing, but Italy severed diplomatic ties last year over Cairo's alleged lack of cooperation in the investigation.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has promised that investigators would work "night and day" to identify and prosecute those responsible for Regeni's torture and killing.
He also blames the local media for wrongfully pointing an accusing finger at his security forces, even though their abuses are regularly noted and criticized by human rights groups.
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