Italy: new trial for four Egyptians after the murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo. The four accused (General Tareq Saber, the Colonels Aser Kamal and Hicham Helmi and Commander Magdi Cherif) are tried in absentia (contumacious) The accused are accused of kidnapping while Commander Cherif is accused of having given Regeni the blows which caused his death from respiratory failure.
On January 25, 2016, this doctoral student at the University of Cambridge was kidnapped by unknown persons and his body was found mutilated a few days later.