A court in Rome sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years over the abduction of Giulio Regeni, according to The Independent.

Those convicted are Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif, for whom prosecutors had sought a life sentence, and Colonels Uhsam Helmi and Athar Kamel Mohamed; the fourth defendant, General Tariq Sabir, was acquitted, according to ANSA. Regeni was abducted on 25 January 2016 while researching Egypt’s independent trade unions for his PhD at Cambridge, according to the BBC.