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This will then decide whether to try to find the accused. The Egyptian authorities reject the Italian allegations about Regeni's killing. Prosecutors accuse them of withholding the accused men's whereabouts and hindering the investigation.

Regeni's parents and sister were at the trial. Italy's government is a civil party in the case - a show of support. Quoted by Reuters news agency, the family's lawyer Alessandra Ballerini said the decision was "a setback, but we are not going to give up.

The year-old student was abducted on 25 January while carrying out research for his PhD at Cambridge on Egypt's independent trade unions. A week later his body was discovered on the road to Alexandria. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Rome reports that the Egyptian authorities constantly hindered the Italian prosecution, inventing wild stories behind the murder: a failed drug deal, a botched robbery, even a gay crime of passion.

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Tunisia MP sentenced to jail in landmark MeToo case. Is Iran losing some of its grip on Shia militias in Iraq? The decision means the case will now return to a preliminary court that will have to decide whether to make a fresh effort to locate the four senior officials and hand them their writs. Earlier on Thursday, a prosecutor had said Italy had made numerous efforts to track down the suspects in the killing of Giulio Regeni and accused Egypt of refusing to reveal their whereabouts and of repeatedly undermining the investigation.

However, judge Antonella Capri, after more than seven hours of deliberations, ruled in favour of court-appointed defence lawyers who had argued that the proceedings would be void if there was no evidence the four Egyptians knew about the case.

Regeni's family were bitterly dismayed by the decision, their lawyer Alessandra Ballerini said. We demand that those who tortured and killed Giulio do not go unpunished," the lawyer told reporters after the ruling. Regeni, a postgraduate student at Britain's Cambridge University, disappeared in Cairo in January Eight families said they saw what they believed were signs of abuse on the bodies of their relatives, including burns, cuts, broken bones, or dislocated teeth, according to the report.

Researchers also reviewed independent forensic analysis of photos and videos showing the bodies of five of the men, as well as pictures from the scenes of two of the alleged shootouts. The reports says that in three cases the analysis was inconsistent with the shoot-out narrative, with the hands of three of the bodies apparently restrained or cuffed behind their backs before death.

Image source, AFP. The interior ministry says its forces opened fire in self-defence in the shoot-outs it reported.