"We are evaluating the possibility of immediately appealing to the European Court in Strasbourg for the violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which has already cost Hungary other sentences": this is what the lawyer Eugenio Losco, one of the Italian lawyers who assists Ilaria Salis, the 39-year-old from Milan who has been detained in Budapest for almost a year.
"The violation is obvious, given how she was brought with a leash into the courtroom", continues the lawyer Losco, who returned to Italy yesterday while Ilaria Salis' parents are still in Budapest where this morning they will meet first their daughter in prison and then the the Italian ambassador to Hungary Manuel Jacoangeli.
"In the meantime, let's move forward trying to understand what the government's commitment consists of to reach the goal of house arrest", concluded Losco.
For further information, ANSA Ilaria Salis Agency, Italy is pressing on house arrest.
Meloni hears Orban.
Lollobrigida: "I didn't see" - Europa - Ansa.it The woman shown in chains on her hands and feet.
The Hungarian Penitentiary Service: "False about prison conditions".
The opposition asks for information from Meloni.
The father reports: "The embassy knew my daughter was in chains."
Lollobrigida: "I haven't seen the photos" (ANSA)
Salis, poster by Ilaria in front of the Hungarian embassy in Rome
On the night between 30 and 31 January, a few steps from the Hungarian Embassy in Rome, the new work by street artist Laika dedicated to Ilaria Salis appeared.
The poster, displayed at the intersection of via dei Villini and via Malpighi, portrays the anti-fascist activist, a professor from Monza, breaking the chains, with the writing on her dress: "Ila resisti".
"Salis has been detained in Hungary for 11 months in inhuman conditions. The images we have seen of the courtroom seem to come from Tehran, not from a European Union country. Not even Breivik in Norway, the terrorist of the Utopia massacre who he gave the Nazi salute in the courtroom, he was tied like that", declared Laika, referring to the tragic images of the Monza professor who appeared chained in court.
"This is a violation of human rights by a member state and we cannot remain silent, doing nothing - continued the artist -; it is a demonstration of strength by a state that increasingly tends towards authoritarianism and which erases rights".
Salis risks up to 24 years in prison on charges of attempted manslaughter for having participated in an attack against some neo-fascists during the 'Day of Honour' rally.
"I am proud to support Ilaria, as an artivist and as an anti-fascist.
This black wave that is hitting Europe must be stopped. Ilaria must be freed. Immediately", concluded Laika.
100 thousand signatures in a few hours to bring her back to Italy
The online petition launched on Change.org by the "Ilaria Salis Libera Committee" has exceeded 100 thousand signatures in a few hours, asking the Italian Government and the President of the Human Rights Commission of the European Parliament to take action to bring the activist of 39 years old who has been locked up in prison in Budapest since last February.
The aim of the Committee and of the collection of signatures is to ensure that "the Italian citizen Ilaria Salis can face trial in Italy for the crimes alleged against her and therefore lead to her immediate release by virtue of the clear violation of international law and of human rights that his long and painful imprisonment highlights."
Currently, Salis is locked up "in conditions incompatible with a democratic state and with international conventions on human rights and the rights of persons deprived of their liberty", say the authors of the petition.
Among the comments of those who signed, the reasons of many citizens outraged by the images arriving from Budapest: "The treatment he is suffering - we read in one of the comments - is not worthy of the European Community".
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