Egypt in the News on 23 November 2020

Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning: Five Egyptian security officials will face trial in absentia in Italy for the killing of Italian Cambridge PhD student Giulio Regeni in 2016, the Sunday Times reports. The news comes a few days after President Abdel Fattah El Sisi discussed the investigation into Regeni’s death with Italian PM Giuseppe Conte. It comes at a time when Egypt’s human rights record is in the international spotlight following last week’s crackdown on the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.