Roberto Fico, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, released statements to Italian media outlets and on his personal Twitter account on 29 November, attesting that the Italian parliamentary house will suspend diplomatic relations with Egypt’s Parliament until there is a “turning point” in the investigation and a trial commences. Giulio Regeni, a PhD candidate who was undertaking research on independent trade unions in Egypt, disappeared from a metro station on January 25, 2016 while on his way to downtown Cairo. His body was found several days later, naked and bearing marks of severe torture, on the side of a highway on the outskirts of the city. In September 2016, Egyptian authorities admitted to having placed Regeni under police surveillance, but have repeatedly denied any involvement in his death. Last June, a statement issued by the United Nations Human Rights Council on behalf of the European Union called on Egypt to “shed light on any alleged case of enforced disappearances and on the circumstances of the death of Giulio Regeni and Eric Lang and bring about justice.”