'Been waiting 8 years for this moment' - Regeni's parents - General News. Giulio Regeni, an Italian student kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Cairo in 2016.

The trial of four Egyptian intelligence officers accused of the homicide started in Rome. The four Egyptian security officials, National Security GeneralTariq Sabir and his subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel MohamedIbrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif, have been put on trial in absentia.