Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso on Monday
called on lawmakers to fill a legislative vacuum by passing a
specific law on the crime of torture.
"A parliamentary debate is taking place to finally give Italy
a criminal law against torture," Grasso said.
"It's a prerogative of the political parties and I limit
myself to recalling that international law requires that it be
banned and that public officials are punished if they cause
serious physical or psychological suffering upon people in
detention or under their control in order to illegitimately
punish them or extort confessions or information".
At the presentation of the journal Diritto Penale della
Globalizzazione (Criminal Law of Globalization), Grasso said the
institutions must listen to experts.
"The political world has the difficult responsibility to
protect citizens' lives and serenity, while maintaining wisdom
and the necessary lucidity to combat crime, atrocities and
barbarism with the instruments of the rule of law, democracy and
multilateralism," he said.
"While doing this job, the institutions must learn to listen
with attention and respect to the passionate competence of you
scholars and experts".
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