An Italian student who went missing in Cairo has died and an investigation has been launched into signs of torture on his body, which was found dumped next to a road, security officials have said.
Giulio Regeni, 28, disappeared on 25 January, the five-year anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. His body has been taken to a Cairo morgue, a morgue worker and security officials said.
In the run-up to the anniversary, police detained activists and warned people not to demonstrate. No significant protests took place.
A friend of Regeni said he disappeared after leaving his home in an upper middle class district to meet a friend downtown.
Last year, Isis militants kidnapped a Croatian man from the outskirts of Cairo and later beheaded him, but such incidents are rare and there was a heavy police presence in downtown Cairo when Regeni went missing.
Reuters
