Officials in Italy, where sentiments are still high over the unresolved murder of student Giulio Regeni, who was detained and died in Egypt eight years ago, are becoming concerned over the arrest of an Italian-Egyptian pornographic performer in Cairo.

According to reports in Italian publications, Elanain Sherif, 44, also known by his stage name Sheri Taliani, was snatched up at Cairo airport on Nov. 9 and brought to prison without providing an official reason, his attorney said on Friday.

Although he had not been notified by Egyptian officials, Sherif’s attorney, Alessandro Russo, told Reuters that the detention could have been due to the country’s ban on the online publication of pornography.

A request for comment was not immediately answered by the Egyptian foreign ministry.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated that the situation was being monitored “with the utmost attention” by the government and the Italian embassy in Cairo.

The lawyer added that Sherif has not been heard from since he was moved from a jail in Cairo to another prison in Alexandria a few days after his detention. His mother was the last person known to see him the day after he was taken into custody.

Although Sherif was born in Egypt, he currently resides in Italy and is dual-national.

According to Russo, he was attempting to get in touch with an Egyptian attorney that Sherif’s mother had assigned to represent him in Egypt.

“From Italy, we can only try to verify that Elanain Sherif is being treated well, the Egyptian lawyer will take care of the case over there,” he said.

“It’s clear that we are thinking with concern about the cases of Giulio Regeni and Patrick Zaki.”

Four Egyptian security guards have been accused by Italy with the 2016 abduction and murder of Regeni, a postgraduate student at Cambridge University in Britain.

Italian prosecutors claim that Egyptian authorities imprisoned him because they believed he was a British spy, while Egypt originally claimed he had died in a sex attack or a car accident before blaming the murder on a band of criminals

In 2020, upon returning home to Egypt, Zaki, an Egyptian scholar who had been studying in Italy, was detained. He received a pardon from the Egyptian president last year, only one day after being sentenced to three years in prison for disseminating false information.

Brazilian meatpacker JBS says it has inked a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian government for a $2.5 billion investment plan that will include the construction of six new plants in the African nation.

Three of the plants would deal in poultry, two in beef, and one in pork, according to a statement from JBS.

In accordance with the memorandum of understanding, JBS stated that it would develop a five-year investment plan in Nigeria, which would include budget estimates, feasibility studies, and an action plan for the development of the local supply chain.

The Nigerian government would then guarantee the sanitary, regulatory, and economic conditions required for the project’s viability, JBS continued.