A Rome court has rejected a petition
from Alfredo Cospito's lawyers for the revocation of the order
for the jailed anarchist to be held under the tough 41 bis
prison regime, his defence team said.
As a result Cospito is set to continue to he held under the 41
bis, which mandates almost complete isolation, at Sassari prison
in Sardinia.
Italy's National Anti-Terrorism and Anti-Mafia Directorate had
come out in favour of an end to the tough jail regime for
Cospito.
Cospito staged a six-month hunger strike against the 41 bis,
which is normally reserved for Mafia bosses, that spurred
anarchists in Italy and abroad to stage violent protests and
arson attacks in his support.
He ended the hunger strike in April following a Constitutional
Court ruling on one of the cases he is in prison for.
He is serving time for the bombing a Carabinieri school in the
Piedmontese city of Fossano on June 2, 2006, in which nobody was
harmed, and the kneecapping a nuclear company executive in 2012.
Cospito's battle against the 41 bis regime was not only for
himself but for all other prisoners being held under it.
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