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Rome court sets date for ruling in the in-absentia trial of four Egyptian national security officials charged over the abduction and torture-killing of Cambridge researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo.

The long-delayed trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officials accused of torturing to death Italian student Giulio Regeni in 2016 can resume in Rome after a key ruling by Italy’s Constitutional Court on Friday. The decision removes a significant procedural barrier that had stalled the Regeni trial.

Egyptian police detained Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo because they thought he was a British spy. They took him to a security facility where he was tortured and murdered, an Italian prosecutor told a Rome court on Monday.