They feel "betrayed by our governments" when warships were sold to Egypt "while the sale of weapons to those who do not respect human rights is prohibited, and Egypt is one of those countries" or when the North African country was listed among the safe ones "while every day 3 or 4 people end up like Giulio".

Claudio Regeni and Paola Deffendi, parents of Giulio, who was kidnapped and killed in Egypt in January 2016, are unsparing in their criticism of the six successive Italian governments over the past 10 years. "There have been many actions," Giulio's mother recalls, "but not as concrete as they should have been for the dignity of a country," and she emphasizes the actions of former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico, "who had the courage to meet and confront President Al Sisi."

Their lawyer, Alessandra Ballerini, is even more harsh. "This government," she emphasizes, "has done so many unjust things to Giulio, we hope it stops." She adds that Italy's cooperation with Egypt is "a further wound for the family, compounded in recent years by the indifference of the patriotic government toward an Italian killed and tortured" at the hands of a foreign country. Ballerini also points out that "the Prime Minister's Office filed a civil suit: consistency is needed. " "Our country," she states, "is composed of different branches of government; it is a democracy and there is a separation of powers, something that doesn't exist in Egypt, where the chief prosecutor is appointed by al-Sisi himself and it is, in effect, a dictatorship. We had a determined, independent judiciary that struggled to survive."

And he reads excerpts from the 2023 Constitutional Court ruling that defines "the inviolability of the right to truth, closely linked to the dignity of the person." From April 15th to the end of May, seventy-six universities and 15,000 people—students, faculty, and even ordinary citizens—will participate in an initiative promoted by Senator for Life and professor at the University of Milan Elena Cattaneo, presented today in the Senate. The initiative will focus on the freedom of study and research and reflect on the consequences of the restriction of fundamental rights in both academia and society. The initiative will begin with a screening of the documentary "Giulio Regeni - Tutto il male del mondo," produced by Fandango and Ganesh.

(Unioneonline)

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