Lawyers acting for Ilaria Salis, the
39-year-old elementary school teacher and anti-Fascist activist
on trial in Hungary for allegedly attacking two Hungarian
neo-Nazis almost a year ago, said Wednesday they are considering
appealing to the European Court of Human Rights over the alleged
violation by Hungary of article three of the European convention
on human rights protecting individuals against inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment. "We are assessing the
possibility of making an immediate appeal to the European Court
in Strasbourg for the violation of Article 3 of the European
Convention on Human Rights, for which Hungary has already been
condemned on other occasions," lawyer Eugenio Losco, one of the
Italian lawyers assisting Salis, told ANSA. "The violation is
blatant, given how she was led into the courtroom on a chain,"
continued the lawyer, referring to the images published Monday
of Salis during a court hearing in Budapest that caused a public
outcry in Italy. "Meanwhile, we are trying to understand what
the government's stated commitment to reach the goal of house
arrest consists of," concluded Losco. On Tuesday the government
of Premier Giorgia Meloni through the foreign ministry called on
Hungary to consider alternatives to prison detention for Salis,
including house arrest. Meloni is also reported to have spoken
to her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban about the case by
telephone on Tuesday evening. Salis' parents are in Budapest,
where on Wednesday they will first visit their daughter in
prison before meeting with the Italian ambassador to Hungary,
Manuel Jacoangeli.
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