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Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
EGYPT’S Interior Ministry denied yesterday that murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni had been arrested before his death.
The Cambridge PhD student from Fiumicello in north-east Italy disappeared in Cairo on January 25 on his way to a meeting.
His body was found dumped beside a road on February 3, bearing signs of torture.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
