The lawyer for the family of Giulio Regeni, an Italian student tortured to death in Egypt in January-February 2026, said Tuesday "that the government has done many unjust things" in the case and the family hoped these would stop.
Four Egyptian security official are on trial in absentia in Rome for the murder of the 28-year-old Cambridge doctoral researcher into Cairo street unions.
It was not immediately clear what injustices the lawyer, Alessandra Ballerini, was referring to on the part of the Egyptian or Italian governments.
Successive Italian governments have maintained unchanged ties with the Egyptian regime and arms sales have continued, while Egypt has been recently deemed a safe country for migrants to return to, a contention that Ballerini took issue with.
"This government has done many unjust things to Giulio, we hope it stops," she told the event, 'Universities for Giulio Regeni', 10 years after his death, at the Senate.
