Giulio Regeni

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Giulio Regeni (born January 15, 1988 in Trieste ; found murdered on February 3, 2016 in Cairo ) was an Italian student who was doing research in Egypt for his doctoral thesis at Cambridge University . He was last seen alive on January 25 and found dead on February 3 on the outskirts of Cairo. His violent death created serious tension between Italy and Egypt.

Life

Giulio Regeni studied Arabic and political science at the University of Leeds , where he graduated with a BA . In 2011 he began studies (Development Studies) at Girton College of Cambridge University . During his studies in Cambridge he worked in Cairo for the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development . In 2015 he taught as a visiting scholar at the German Development Institute in Cairo. His doctoral thesis focused on the history and structures of independent trade unions in Egypt.

Regeni wrote articles under a pseudonym for the left-wing newspaper Il Manifesto . His last article for Il Manifesto , in which he criticized the government of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , was published posthumously in the newspaper on February 4th under Regeni's name and against the wishes of his parents.

He was last seen alive on January 25, 2016, the 5th anniversary of Mubarak's disempowerment, in the metro in central Cairo, when he was on his way to meet friends. Giulio Regeni was 28 years old.

The Regeni case

Regeni's body was found half-naked and mutilated on February 3, 2016 on a little-traveled road between Cairo and Alexandria . Human rights organizations have said that the nature of his burns and injuries is the same as that of other victims of the Egyptian security forces.

The Egyptian government has until now vehemently denied any involvement of its security services in the case. Corresponding investigations against the services are not yet known. Official announcements from the Egyptian side were sluggish, sketchy and contradictory. According to an initial official statement, he was killed by drug dealers; according to a second version, the killers were identified in the vicinity of the Egyptian trade unions. According to the latest version, he was kidnapped, robbed and killed by a criminal gang. The Egyptian police killed all members of the gang in a police operation. This version was also denied after a short time.

Regeni was autopsied in Egypt that he died as a result of being hit on the back of the head with a sharp object. He was autopsied a second time in Italy. The second autopsy documented features of several days of torture: burns from cigarettes, burns from electrodes, torn out fingernails and toenails, broken legs, ribs and shoulders.

The murder of Giulio Regeni sparked a verbal exchange of blows and serious diplomatic tension between the Italian and Egyptian governments. On April 8, the Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni called his Ambassador in Cairo back to Rome for consultations. A meeting between police representatives from the two countries in Rome in April did not help to clarify the situation, as the Egyptian delegation submitted a 2000-page dossier that did not provide any new information. The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi , who had already said in the run-up to the conference that he would not come to terms with a convenient truth , bluntly expressed his anger at the Egyptian side in the following press conference and threatened with consequences.

In a resolution, the European Parliament called for all arms deliveries to Cairo to be stopped and emphasized "with deep concern that the Giulio Regeni case is not an isolated incident, but is related to torture, deaths in custody and abductions."

On April 4, 2016, the Corriere della Sera published a list of names of 533 Egyptians who had been abducted by security forces in the last eight months, 396 of whom have not yet appeared again.

On April 14, 2016, the New York Times sharply attacked France with an editorial, calling it "shameful" to remain silent in the face of Italy's demands to put pressure on Egypt

In September 2017, human rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy , who represents Giulio Regeni's family, was abducted on the way to a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council working group . It was not until a colleague recognized him in a prosecutor's office that Metwally was officially taken into custody.

Italian prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone found on January 25, 2018 that Giulio Regeni had been killed as a result of his research and that Egyptian security forces had targeted him before he was kidnapped.

Fonts

  • (posthumously) zs. with Georgeta Vidican-Auktor: The Developmental State in the 21st Century. Calling for a New Social Contract. Discussion paper. Bonn: German Development Institute 2017. ISBN 978-3-96021-026-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Fisk: Murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni paid the ultimate price for his investigation into Al-Sisi's Egypt. The Cambridge student had spotted that trade unionism is the greatest threat to dictatorship [1] In: Independent. April 16, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016.
  2. ^ Rosie Scammell, Ruth Michaelson: Italy prepares to repatriate body of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni. In: theguardian.com. The Guardian , February 5, 2016, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  3. ^ Giulio Regeni 1988-2016. In: devstudies.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge , March 31, 2016, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  4. ^ A b Barbara Bibbo: Egypt prosecutors in Rome to discuss Giulio Regeni case. In: aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera , April 7, 2016, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c Martin Gehlen: Cairo's cynical farce about murdered Italians. In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , April 5, 2016, accessed on April 11, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Caso Regeni, Renzi: rifiuteremo ogni tentativo di svicolare rispetto alla verità. In: gelocal.it. Il Messagiero, April 6, 2016, accessed April 11, 2016 (Italian).
  7. ^ Giulio Regeni murder: Italy recalls ambassador to Egypt. In: bbc.com. BBC News, April 8, 2016, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Resolution of the European Parliament of March 10, 2016 on Egypt, in particular the Giulio Regeni case (2016/2608 (RSP)). (PDF; 179 kB) In: europarl.europa.eu. European Parliament, March 10, 2016, accessed April 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Farid Adley et al. a .: Giulio e gli altri. 735 sparizioni sforzati in Egitto negli ultimi otto mesi In: Corriere della Sera. April 11, 2016, Italian, accessed April 12, 2016.
  10. ^ New York Times : Upping the Pressure on Egypt , accessed April 9, 2020.
  11. ^ Il Corriere della Sera : Regeni, Mattarella: "Non vogliamo e non possiamo dimenticare" (Italian), accessed on April 9, 2020.
  12. ↑ "The lawyer who fought for the disappeared and disappeared himself." In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 18, 2017.
  13. ^ Ilyas Saliba: Besieged Universities. Since coming to power five years ago, the government and security forces in Egypt have been focusing more on universities. In: Amnesty Journal , vol. 2018, issue April / May, pp. 22-23, here p. 23.
personal data
SURNAME Regeni, Giulio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian student
DATE OF BIRTH 5th January 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste , Friuli Venezia Giulia , Italy
DATE OF DEATH before February 3, 2016
Place of death Cairo , Egypt