Giulio Regeni, a postgraduate student at Cambridge University was tortured to death after being mistaken for a foreign spy in Cairo in 2016.
What Really Happened to the Student?
Meanwhile, Regeni had only been in Cairo to research Egypt’s independent unions for his doctoral thesis.
He had his bones broken and was slashed across his body with a razor by four Egyptian secret service agents, who Italian prosecutors allege were involved in the killing, but have been unable to track them down to issue summons.
The 28-year-old was beaten with sticks and suffered severe burns, the prosecution’s medical consultant told during the trial against the Egyptian intelligence officers in Rome on Wednesday.
He Suffered More Than 24 Bone Fractures
He also suffered multiple stab wounds on the soles of his feet, slices in his skin made from a sharp object suspected to be a razor blade and several cigarette burns.
What Autopsy Revealed
A larger burn mark was spotted between his shoulder blades – sign that the student was branded with a large, burning object.
He also suffered a brain hemorrhage and a broken cervical vertebra after having his neck twisted or struck, which ultimately led to his death, per autopsy.
When He Was Last Seen
The PhD student was on his way to see a friend when he left his flat near Behoos metro station in Cairo on January 25, 2016.
Nine days later, his body was found naked from the waist down and dumped in a ditch near a desert highway between Cairo and Alexandria.
The Egyptian government though admitted in 2016 to having put the student under surveillance.
