CAIRO – 2 January 2021: “The Egyptian law prohibits the extradition of an Egyptian citizen for trial in a foreign country as long as that case is under investigation in Egypt,” Egyptian lawyer and politician Mohamed Bahaa Eldin Abou Shoka commented on Italy’s request to extradite Egyptian security personnel accused of killing the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni. Abou Shoka said that the investigations revealed that a street vendor has reported on Regen after he suspected him to the Egyptian security forces. Afterwards, the concerned security bodies started using the visual tools for searching for Regeni, Abu Shoka continued. Three days ago, the Egyptian prosecution closed officially the investigations into the murder incident, in which five Egyptian security men from the National Security Agency are accused of “kidnapping and torturing Regeni to death” in 2016. The Egyptian prosecution said, in a joint statement by both prosecutions, that Regeni had been a victim of a robbery gang, saying it could find his belongings in the apartment of one of the gang’s members.

Source: Egypt Today January 02, 2021 12:22 UTC