Regeni’s Cambridge professor brought to center of row, to be questioned this month

Investigations of the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni are bringing his professor at Cambridge University to the center of the row, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Ruth Michaelson write for The Guardian. Maha Abdelrahman, who served as Regeni’s tutor, “has been a favourite target of Italian press reports, who have painted her as willfully resisting demands for information,” the write, and this month she will face Italian interrogators in the UK. “It has raised suspicions, too, that the Italian government might be seeking to shift the focus away from Egypt and on to Cambridge for political reasons.”