Prosecutors ask a life term and three 17-and-a-half-year terms for Regeni murder

Rome prosecutors on Tuesday requested

a life term and three 17-and-a-half-year terms for four Egyptian

security officials in their in-absentia trial in Rome for

torturing to death Italian student Guiulio Regeni in

January-February 2016.

The 28-year-old student's half-naked body was found in a ditch

on the Cairo-Alexandria highway on February 3, 2016, a week

after he disappeared on the Cairo metro on January 25.

Regeni, a Friuli-born Cambridge University doctoral researcher

into Cairo street unions, was allegedly abducted and tortured to

death by National Security General Tariq Sabir and his

subordinates, Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Helmi,

and Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif.

The four have not attended any of the trial hearings after Egypt

refused to notify them of the proceedings.

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