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.
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