Italian student murder: Egyptian lawmakers to visit Italian parliament

CAIRO, April 27: Members of the Egyptian parliament’s human rights commission will visit the Italian parliament to discuss the murder in Cairo earlier this year of Italian student Giulio Regeni, the commission’s president said Tuesday. Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat made the announcement to jourlists in Cairo but did not give a date for the visit. Before the Egyptian lawmakers leave for Rome, they will hold talks with government officials on the circumstances of Regeni’s abduction and murder, Sadat said. “Egyptian civil society organisations have a different version of the young Italian’s killing from that of Egyptian investigators - we will listen to all the accounts.” Regeni’s mutilated, half-ked body bearing signs of torture was allegedly found in a ditch on Cairo’s western outskirts on February 3, nine days after he vanished in the capital on January 25. (IANS/AKI)