A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #181: What's new - In the prisons of the fascist Orban (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Since February 2023, Ilaria Salis, anarchist and anti-fascist from 
Milan, 39 years old, has been rotting in a prison in Budapest, Hungary, 
for almost a year, kept on a leash and with her feet tied, in inhumane 
conditions, locked up in a maximum security prison. She is accused of 
having attacked three neo-Nazis in the Hungarian capital on February 11, 
during the "day of honor", a demonstration attended by those nostalgic 
for Hitler . She is accused of " acts potentially capable of causing 
death ", despite the fact that the victims of the attacks - who did not 
file a complaint - suffered injuries considered curable with a prognosis 
of 5-8 days. For that charge, Ilaria Salis risks up to 24 years in 
prison. She has always declared herself innocent.
When, after a long time, she was able to contact her lawyers, Salis said 
that after the arrest she was completely deprived of all her clothes and 
shoes, replaced with filthy clothes that her captors had at their 
disposal and with stiletto heel boots, in order to humiliate her and put 
her at ease. In the first days of detention, the prisoner was kept in 
isolation, forced to continue wearing dirty clothes, including 
underwear, without any hygienic support, including toilet paper, a 
towel, sanitary pads, even though she was on her period, until, after 35 
days the Italian consulate did not deliver the first package. Ilaria is 
defended by György Magyar, in Budapest by one of the most famous 
Hungarian criminal lawyers, procured for her by her father, without any 
support from the Italian Embassy.
In September 2023, when he was able to see them, he told his astonished 
parents that the inmates were forced to face "the wall" and were 
imprisoned "23 hours a day" in cells in mixed sections, men and women. , 
with "bedbugs, cockroaches and mice". The woman also said that, during 
the transport of detainees (for example to court), the officers, in 
addition to handcuffs, use a leather belt with a buckle, and tie the 
detainee's feet together with two leather anklets, closed with padlocks 
and joined together with a chain. Finally, a leather leash, fixed with a 
handcuff to one of the wrists, held at the end by the escort agent, 
joins him to the jailer. Inmates are forced to work "full time" in 
prison for 50 euros a month, and foreign inmates are unpaid. The lawyer 
Eugenio Losco who defends her from Italy, underlined that she was 
offered a plea deal of 11 years "which she obviously refused, because 
she declares herself innocent and because this is a very high sentence 
for a crime that in our country is punished with 2 years and 4 months." 
The premiere will take place on January 29th hearing but «Nothing will 
happen, the Prosecutor's Office will officially present the evidence and 
they will ask my daughter if she pleads guilty or innocent to the 
charge» what will happen then is unknown. «Since 7 September Ilaria has 
had a mobile phone capable of calling her family and 70 minutes a week. 
You can only call her, but compared to the first thirty-five days of 
prison torture, we have the possibility of hearing from her." - her 
father declared to the press, underlining however that her daughter is 
in a serious state of malnutrition.
Although Amnesty International has paid close attention to the case and 
despite the family's appeals to the Prime Minister, the Minister of 
Foreign Affairs and the Keeper of the Seals, who guaranteed her in 
words, nothing has been done by the Government to protect an Italian 
citizen. Instead, a solidarity petition on change.org has reached 40 
thousand signatures, public opinion has taken sides, the media are 
starting to give great coverage to this story.
Unfortunately, Ilaria's odyssey is destined to last: The structural 
deficiencies of the Hungarian prison system, where in 2023 the highest 
number of prisoners since 1990 was recorded, have been highlighted 
several times by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and by Amnesty 
International: overcrowding , poor sanitary conditions, years of 
insufficient investment and little use of alternative precautionary 
measures.
On this situation and while waiting to receive further information from 
the Hungarian side, the Milan Court of Appeal has denied the extradition 
of another Italian citizen, Gabriele Marchesi, facing the same charges 
as Ilaria Salis. The deputy prosecutor of the Court also underlined the 
disproportion between the relative modesty of the disputed facts and the 
enormity of the proposed sentence.
The second worrying aspect, reported by the lawyers and the family of 
Ilaria Salis, concerns the failure to translate part of the procedural 
documents, including the medical reports on the injured people, 
currently accessible only in Hungarian, as well as the inmate's 
inability to view the videos deposited as incriminating evidence: 
circumstances which violate the right to a fair trial, enshrined in the 
European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter of Fundamental Rights 
of the European Union and derived legislation.
Ilaria Salis's Hungarian lawyers have repeatedly presented a request to 
request that the precautionary measures be carried out in the 
defendant's country of residence, in compliance with the Council's 
Framework Declaration 2009/829/GAI, but the requests have always been 
rejected without the The Italian embassy, despite the family's explicit 
request, did not take any concrete action to support them.
The organization of the "attacked" neo-Nazis - for its part - has opened 
the hunt for the woman on social media, publishing her photos!

https://www.ucadi.org/2024/01/23/cosa-ce-di-nuovo-nelle-carceri-del-fascista-orban/
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