A number of European Parliament members submitted a draft resolution for debate in plenary on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law pursuant to Rule 135 of the Rules of Procedure. The plenary meeting, scheduled on March 10, will vote a resolution to call on the Egyptian authorities to carry out a swift, independent, impartial and effective investigation into the case of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni whose body was found on 2nd February next to a road in the outskirts of Cairo. The draft resolution urges the EU Parliament to condemn the severe deterioration of the media environment, and calls for the immediate and unconditional release and the overturn of wrongful convictions of all media professionals and bloggers arrested or convicted for merely carrying out their legitimate activities, including Mahmoud Abdel Nabi, Mahmoud Abu Zeid (a.k.a. Shawkan), Samhi Mustafa, Ahmed Fouad, Abdel Rahman Shaheen, Youssef Shaaban, Hisham Gaafar, Esraa Al Taweel and Ismail al-Iskandrani, as well as novelist Ahmed Naji.
