Cambridge University sends Italy Regeni documents

The University of Cambridge has responded to Italian prosecutors’ request and sent documents to Rome on Giulio Regeni, the Italian research student found dead on the side of a road in Cairo, Egypt, a judicial source said yesterday.

Another batch of documents will arrive in the coming days after Italian authrories made the request on 6 June.

Egyptian friends of 28-year-old Regeni have said his work among union activists brought him into the cross-hairs of Egypt’s security forces. Egypt has denied its intelligence or police had any role in the murder of Regeni, who disappeared on 25 January, the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ousted former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and whose body was found in a ditch outside Cairo on 3 February with multiple signs of torture on it.