Trial of four Egyptian officials for Regeni murder begins. Regeni, a 28-year-old Cambridge University doctoral researcher into independent Egyptian trade unions, disappeared on the Cairometro on January 25, 2016.
His mutilated, semi-naked body was found in a ditch on the road to Alexandria on February 3. 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, are on trial in absentia.