Egypt Refuses To Accuse Police Over Italian Student's Murder

Egypt refuses to accuse police officers suspected by Italy of involvement in the murder of an Italian student, AFP reports the authorities as saying.

The policemen are suspected by Italian prosecutors of gathering information about Giulio Regeni, a judicial source told AFP.

The Italian prosecutors asked their Egyptian counterparts "to approve the inclusion of a number of Egyptian policemen on its register of suspects in Italy", the source added.

But Egypt's authorities said there is not enough evidence to proceed.

"Charges should be based on evidence and not suspicions," Egypt's State Information Service said in a statement released late on Sunday.

The 28-year-old student was researching for a doctorate at Cambridge University when he disappeared on 25 January 2016. His body was found dumped by a road near Cairo nine days later.

He was researching independent trade unions - a politically sensitive in Egypt, where the government has intensified a crackdown on unofficial protest movements in recent years.





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