Egypt: No Transparency over italian Death

Memos From Egypt's Interior Ministry Leaked to Journalists

Memos from Egypt's Interior Ministry that were leaked to the media on Tuesday outline strategies for deflecting public outrage over recent arrests and suggest a gag order on the case of an Italian student abducted and killed in Cairo. [...] One note suggested the prosecutor general impose a gag order on the investigation into the killing of Giulio Regeni, who was abducted in January and severely tortured before his body was found several days later on the outskirts of Cairo. The ministry has said security forces were not involved in the killing, which has strained ties between Egypt and Italy. [...]  "(The ministry) cannot retreat from this position now; a retreat would mean a mistake was made, and if there was a mistake who is responsible and who is to be held to account?" it added.  [...] 

This is the state of the military repression, that muzzles mouths and restricts freedoms, and yet archeologists willingly work with officials from this government in obtaining their excavation concessions and the repatriation of items forcibly taken from reputable dealers and collectors at home. Archeologists should be boycotting Egypt, instead they are flocking there in hordes.