It is just over a year since the mutilated corpse of Giulio Regeni, the Cambridge University doctoral student, was found by a roadside on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. A transnational campaign has since demanded Truth for Giulio / Verità per Giulio, and drawn international attention to forced disappearances and extensive violations of human and citizenship rights in Egypt. Giulio’s killers, most likely members of Egypt’s security services, have not yet been brought to justice. This panel brings together key activists with leading social movement academics to discuss the case at one year. What happened to Giulio Regeni? What sorts of EU, Italian and UK complicity in Egyptian human rights violations have come to light? How can issues around rights and citizenship in Egypt be internationalized? What has campaigning achieved so far, and what are its prospects? What activist strategies have been, or might be effective? The panel raises wider questions about transnational rights activism in a world of globalised governance.

Sherif Azer is an Egyptian human rights activist.

Dr John Chalcraft is Associate Professor in the History and Politics of Empire/Imperialism in the Department of Government at the LSE.

Shane Enright is a Community Organiser (Unions and Workplaces) and Global Trade Union Adviser at Amnesty International UK.

Liesbeth Ten Ham is the Amnesty International regional representative for East Anglia.

Ayça Çubukçu is Assistant Professor in Human Rights in the Department of Sociology and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the LSE.

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