Cospito tells regional pol he wants to live

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 1 - Alfredo Cospito, the 55-year-old anarchist leader whose health is faltering after an over 100 day hunger strike protesting his harsh 41 bis mafia style jail regime, on Wednesday told +Europa/Radical party Lombardy regional councillor Michele Usuelli that he "wants to live" despite vowing to keep striking until he gets his goal of ending 41 bis for all inmates.
    Usuelli told reporters after visiting the ailing Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) leader in Milan's Opera Pirosn where he has been moved into a special health unit from his former jail on Sardinia that Cospito "seemed very lucid".
    He told ANSA that Cospito "feels the responsibility of his initiative for the humanization of the 41 bis, while understanding the need to prevent communication between those so detained and the outside world".
    The 41 bis regime, which began to stop Mafia dons running operations form inside amid an assault on the State in the 80s and 90s, has been criticised by rights groups as potentially 'torturing' prisoners while ignoring rehabilitation requirements. (ANSA).