(ANSA) - ROME, APR 24 - Giulio Regein was tortured by being
beaten with sticks and suffering burns, the prosecution's
medical examiner told the Rome trial in absentia of four
Egyptian security officers in the January-February 2016 torture
and death of the 28-year-old Italian Cambridge university
doctoral researcher into Egyptian street seller unions
Wednesday.
Regeni suffered various forms of torture in Cairo, coroner and
prosecution consultant Vittorio Finceschi told the trial of
National Security General Tariq Sabir and his subordinates,
Colonels Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim and Uhsam Helmi, and Major
Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif. (ANSA).