Ilaria Salis says government of Viktor Orbán has been ‘embarrassed’ by her election and parliamentary immunity
As the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, finished a speech to the European parliament, the Italian MEP Ilaria Salis rose from her seat and with about a dozen other leftwing colleagues belted out the anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao.
Until May, Salis had been held in pre-trial detention in a Hungarian prison following her arrest on charges of assault in February last year at a counter-protest to a neo-Nazi rally in Budapest. She was then freed and allowed to return to Italy in June, after her election that month to the European parliament.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/30/orban-italian-mep-hungary-effort-jail-again-ilaria-salis
Author : Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo
Publish date : 2024-10-30 05:00:01
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