A limited movement and promotions in the Egyptian Ministry of Interior revealed the appointment of Major General Tariq Saber as assistant to the Minister of Interior for Civil Status, who is one of the accused officers in the case of the murder of the Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, and was an official in the National Security Agency (internal intelligence).

Egyptian newspapers published the decision of Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq to conduct limited movement and promotions for police officers at the republic level, with the aim of facing the security challenges in the country.

Activists said that the transfer of Saber from the National Security Agency to the Civil Status is, in fact, an exclusion before leaving the pension (retirement), given that National Security is the most important and influential sector of the Ministry of Interior and dominates the Egyptian internal affairs.

We monitored the movements of the Ministry of Interior in # Egypt, which were approved by the Minister of Interior, Major General Mahmoud Tawfiq, which shows that the ministry transferred Major General Tariq Saber to the Civil Status Department.

It is reported that # Tariq_Saber is one of the accused in the murder of the Italian researcher # Giulio_Rugeni, according to the statement of the Italian Attorney General.

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- We Record - We Record (@WeRecordAR) January 13, 2021

Last month, the Italian Attorney General, Michael Preetipino, announced the end of the investigations into the case of the murder of the researcher Giulio Regeni in Egypt in 2016, with charges of premeditated murder, torture and kidnapping of 4 Egyptian officers, while the case against the fifth accused was dropped due to insufficient evidence.

The Italian Public Prosecutor confirmed that Regeni was tortured several times during his detention, and died after a blow to the head from the back, explaining that he informed his Egyptian counterpart the results of the Italian investigation, and that the Egyptian Public Prosecutor rejected these results.

The Italian prosecution revealed that the defendants were: Major General Tariq Saber, Colonel Aser Kamel Muhammad Ibrahim, Captain Hossam Helmy, and Major Majdi Ibrahim Abdel-Al Sharif.

Today @WeRecordAR has published about the transfer of Major General Tariq Saber to the Civil Status Administration, some people think that this is a promotion to the brigade, but the truth is that the Interior Minister’s decision to transfer him means that he remains a lost horse, so he must be removed from the National Security Agency for a much weaker job .. I mean, in the municipality, they wear pajamas for the pension Or ...

- Haitham Ghoniem (@HaithamGhoniem) January 13, 2021

In turn, Italian Member of Parliament Massimo Ungaro said that the Italian authorities were able to provide complete evidence to the judiciary of those involved in the killing of Regeni in Egypt in early 2016.

Ungaro explained - in an interview for the episode (1/13/2021) of the "Without Borders" program - that the Italian prosecutors believe that 13 people were involved in the kidnapping and murder, but there is evidence for only 4 of them, and therefore the trial will be in absentia against 4 Egyptian officers. "We believe that Major Magdy Sharif is personally responsible for the torture and killing of Regeni," he added.

Major General "Tariq Saber", one of those accused of killing the Italian researcher "# Regeni", transferred from National Security to the Civil Status Department pic.twitter.com/Sr7fy0IEfo

- Complementary - News (@mek_news) January 14, 2021

General Tarek Saber of the National Security Sector was transferred today to the interior ministry's civil status department, which issues national IDs and birth certificates.

Last month Italian prosecutors charged Saber in the case of torturing and murdering #Giulio_Regeni

- hossam bahgat (@hossambahgat) January 13, 2021