Jailed Italian anarchist leader
Alfredo Cospito, whose health is deteriorating amid a 100-day
hungers strike against his tough mafia-style prison treatment,
is to be moved to a Milan jail where health facilities are
better than the Sardinian one he has been in for the last few
years, his lawyer said Monday.
The lawyer, Flavio Rossi Albertini, said Cospito, whose plight
has spurred attacks on Italian diplomatic offices at home and
abroad, said the 55-year-old Informal Anarachists Federation
(FAI) leader would be moved from Sassari Prison to Opera Prison
in the Lombardy capital.
Cospito will be moved into an intensive care unit at Opera,
Rossi Albertini said.
"Cospito will be admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the
Milan prison facility (SAI) in Opera in view of his state of
health," said Rossi Albertini.
Prisoners suffering from serious pathologies qualify for the
SAI. On Sunday, Cospito's doctor Angelica Milia claimed that the
detainee was at "risk of fibrillation", in view of his weight
loss, and urged his transfer.
Cospito has lost over 40kg in his hunger strike against the 41
bis jail regime that is normally reserved for mafia bosses.
He is the first Italian anarchists to be held under 41 bis and
his supporters have said if he dies the State will have blood on
its hands.
Cospito, who has lately taken to a wheelchair, slipped and fell
in the shower and broke his nose last week.
A 30-day deadline for the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, to
respond to the request by Cospito's defence counsel to revoke
the four-year hard prison sentence imposed on him expires on 12
February, Rossi Albertini also said Monday.
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