Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning are reports of EU countries expressing concern over the arrest of the Egyptian human rights lawyer investigating the Regeni murder. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Britain and Canada saying they were “deeply concerned” at the ongoing detention of human rights lawyer Ibrahim Metwaly Hegaz, Reuters reports. “We are concerned at the detention conditions that Ibrahim Metwaly Hegazy is reportedly enduring, and continue to call for transparency on prison conditions in Egypt,” a joint statement published on the British government website said late on Friday.

Meanwhile, Italian prosecutors have sent a formal petition to the British authorities last week asking to question Giulio Regeni’s Cambridge University tutor, Professor Maha Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, ANSA reports. “The move regards alleged ambiguity and omissions by the woman in relation to the probe into the torture and murder of [Regeni],” the report noted.

Big in the UK press this morning: Depending on which report you believe, a British woman faces the death penalty or 25 years in prison for allegedly smuggling into Egypt some 300 tabs of a popular opioid pain reliever she says her Egyptian husband needed. The story broke on tabloid news website The Sun, but is receiving wide coverage in the UK press, with pickups on BBC, The Independent, and The Guardian.