Yesterday, Giulio Regeni, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and an Italian national, has been found dead in Cairo, after having disappeared for eight days since January 25. His body had been clearly tortured.

Giulio was conducting fieldwork on the local economy and the trade unions in Egypt where he was a visiting researcher at the American University in Cairo.

A journalist of the Il Manifesto - an Italian leftwing newspaper - today has revealed that Giulio occasionally contributed articles to the newspaper using a pseudonym fearing persecutions by the authoritarian Egyptian government led by el-Sisi.

It is sad to notice that the University of Cambridge doesn't report anything about Giulio's death/assassination in the home page of its official website.

Both the Italian and the UK governments like other western governments have entertained good relationships - economic and political - with the government led by General Sisi since the coupe d'etat in 2013 and they are therefore morally responsible for the loss of Giulio.