Two prominent Italian intellectuals have announced they are returning their Legion of Honor awards to France in protest at the awarding of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi with the distinction despite his government's dire human rights record. Corrado Augias, a journalist and former member of the European Parliament, took his 2007 prize back to the French Embassy on Monday. Giovanna Melandri, a former Italian culture minister and the president of ...