Human Rights abuses from Non-European countries: the case of Italy and Egypt

Abstract

Laws, States, Embassies, Ambassadors, Europe, Middle East, and Human Rights. This multitude of concepts is the core of this thesis. Starting from a legal perspective, the author has tried to see what a state can or cannot do when its citizens suffer human rights violations, like Giulio Regeni, a PhD student who was studying the trade union movements in Egypt. International law condemns behaviour like the ones that will be explained. Still, Egypt has hidden and forbidden access to the Italian authorities, whose aim was to produce a verdict for the two Egyptian secret agents. The literature on this limitation of the state's power to claim justice is focused on what a state can or cannot do, but about Giulio Regeni, only journalists have written the truth. The findings of this work, perhaps, will be helpful for future research combining the legal papers and the interview aiming to discover first the truth and second to contribute to the academic debate in the field of human rights abuses or violations.