By Ellie Bothwell. The body of a University of Cambridge PhD student who disappeared last week in Cairo has been found and shows signs of torture and a “slow death”, according to a senior Egyptian prosecutor.
Italian student Giulio Regeni disappeared on the evening of 25 January, the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt. His body was found half-naked beside a road in Cairo’s western outskirts on 3 February, according to the BBC.
Senior prosecutor Ahmad Nagi said that the cause of death had yet to be determined but Mr Regeni’s body had bruises, knife wounds and cigarette burns. More...