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Egyptian Aak 2016-Week 5 ( Feb 1-7)

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  • Italian student found dead in Egypt. Thursday
  • Italian foreign ministry calls for joint investigation into student’s death
  • Cessation Court accepts appeal against 149 death sentences in the Kerdasa massacre. Wednesday
  • Police kill 2 alleged members of Ajnad Masr. Thursday

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Giulio Regeni, Italian student found dead in Cairo- via Il Manifesto

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Tortured Italian student died ‘slow death’: Egypt official

The Egyptian Association for Rights and Freedoms documented 314 cases of forced disappearances in 2015, said lawyer Halem Henish. Most later turned up in prison, but at least five were found at the morgue, including one with signs of torture like burns and electric shocks.He said the group has documented 35 disappearances so far in 2016, including at least two of whom died.Meanwhile, in Regeni’s hometown of Fiumicello in northeastern Italy, townspeople were “destroyed” by the news of his death, said Mayor Ennio Scridel. The town of 5,000 declared Sunday a day of mourning.”If you go into a bar, you see dark faces, silences, looks that let escape all the sadness of a small community like ours,” Scridel told Sky Tg24. He described Regeni as “an extraordinary person, who comes from a good family.”News of Regeni’s death prompted Italy’s economic development minister, Federica Guidi, to cut short a visit to Cairo and head home. Guidi had been heading a delegation of 60 business people to help companies set up business in Egypt.Italian Premier Matteo Renzi spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi by telephone and pledged to coordinate efforts with Italian authorities to “unravel the mystery” surrounding Regini’s death, el-Sissi’s office said.The Italian news agency ANSA said a seven-person team of Italian and Interpol investigators was heading to Cairo on Friday to participate in the inquiry.Egyptian authorities have come under criticism for lack of transparency in several investigations, particularly the Oct. 31 crash of a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula and the September killing of eight Mexican tourists and four Egyptian guides by a security forces helicopter that opened fire on their desert safari. In both cases, authorities banned media reports on the investigations.

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