Public Prosecutor Nabil Sadeq traveled on Tuesday to the Italian Capital, Rome, heading a judicial delegation from the prosecution to meet with his Italian counterpart and officials of the Italian prosecution.
The delegation will review the latest developments of the investigations on killing of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo.
The visit comes following an invitation from the Italian prosecution in November to discuss developments of the interrogations as well as to exchange information related to the case.
Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian PhD student at Cambridge University, disappeared in Cairo on January 25, 2016, the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising.
Ten days later, his body was found along the side of the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, bearing the apparent signs of torture.
Egypt and Italy have been at loggerheads since the student's death. After months of disagreement over the conduct of investigations into his death, the Italian parliament voted to halt supplies of spare parts for F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, a move that Egypt said could harm bilateral co-operation in a number of military and security fields.
In October, Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said that the case of Regeni is "an open wound" for his country.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
